If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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