It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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 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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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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