The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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