However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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