Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMen of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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