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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWJoy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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