Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things come round to him who will but wait.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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