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 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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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