In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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