Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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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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