A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPerseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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