Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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