Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHowever things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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 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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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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If 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.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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