The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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