Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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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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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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