Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove gives itself; it is not bought.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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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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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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