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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Criticism Criticize Lie Strength Thing Weakmnness
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Forth Fountain Return Send Which
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Begin Difficult Know Love Movement
By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Bead Crow Drop Golden Hand Kill Manage Near Passer Snake
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Always Combine Courtesy Golden House Intelligence Often Room Wooden
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Crown Grace Helicon Many Mouldering Muses Old People Person Poet Sunshine Too Visit
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Another Darkness Ocean Pass Shown Signal Silence Speak
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Benefit Devotion Enemy Fold Hand Intension Man Strength Whoever
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Demand Fredon No People Power When
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Cease Exquisite Music Pass Seem She When
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Affection Cu=Ity Feel Great Man Neighbourhood Safe Security Street Sweet
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Defeat Ourselves People Plaudit Shout Throng
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Being Country Feminine Like Masculine Mingles Only Perfect Poem Rhyme Structure
It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Beautiful Character Evil Love Loved Object Trait
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Art Counterfeit Counterpart Nature Reproduce
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Firmness Greatest Mercy
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Element Enough Gate Great Knock Long Preserving Somebody Sucess Sure Up Wake
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Already Capable Dfeel Do Judge Other Ourselves Sone
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Address Age Another For Itself Less Opportunity Through Youth
All things come round to him who will but wait.
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All Thing Come Round Wait Who
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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Blazing Descends Dull Earth Genius Insert Most Often Only Society Stone
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Do Explain Right Take Thing Time
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Character Excellence Manner Simplicity Supreme Thing
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Gather Ground never Spit Together Water
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Doctor Door Joy Nose Repose Slam Temperature
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Character Excellence Manner Simplicity Style Supreme Thing

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