Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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 heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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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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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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