Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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