He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWYouth comes but once in a lifetime.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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