Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHe that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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 rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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