We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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