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"51 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 February 1807. Died: 24 March 1882 | Poet |

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.

Read Disarm Sorrow Secret
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Did Does Explain Less
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Day Filled Lnvisible Sky
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Lifetime Once Youth
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Human Human Voice Organ Soul
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Ambition Great Most People
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Above Aim Hit Little
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Capable Doing Done Feel
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Best Rain Raining Thing
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Call Cold Every Every Man
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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.

Age Another Away Day
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Affection City Enjoy Feel
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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.

Could Disarm Each Enemies
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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.

Beads Control Crow Dropping
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Benefits Devotion Enemies Enemy
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Demand Freedom Only People
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Doctor Door Joy Nose
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Fire Hotter Makes Often
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Art Every Giveth Grace
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Ambition High However Human
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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.

Accomplishments Again Always Come
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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.

After Because Come Deserved
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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.

Again Back Fear Forth
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Enough Gate Knock Long
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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.

Behind Departing Footprints Great
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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Affection Never Talk Wasted
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Perseverance 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.

Element Enough Gate Great
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Books Learning Love Serenity
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Attempted Done Earned Nights
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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.

Attained Companions Flight Great
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Exquisite Had Like Music
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Coat He Himself Mail
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Coat He Himself Mail
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Across Better Books Conversation
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Into each life some rain must fall.

Each Fall Life Must
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Defeat Ourselves Triumph
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All things come round to him who will but wait.

All Things Come Him Round
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Begins Begun Difficult Know
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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.

Attempted Begun Close Done
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.

All Things Change Must New
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Anvil Either Hammer Man
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Resolve and thou art free.

Art Free Resolve Thou
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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.

Coat Generally Hole Leaves
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Always Combined Courtesy Find
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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.

Army Author Challenge Corners
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Criticism Criticized Lies Strength
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Again Forth Fountain Returns
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Bought Gives Itself Love
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Evil Failure Good Good Thing
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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.

Crowded Defeat Ourselves Street
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes & Sayings