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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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