If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSomething attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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 clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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