A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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