Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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 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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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