Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things come round to him who will but wait.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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