A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

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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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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