Tag: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow