I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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 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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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