A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSomething attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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