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 LONGFELLOWThe best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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