Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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