If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFor his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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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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