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 LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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