Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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