The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMan is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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