However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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