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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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