Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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