If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW