He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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