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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All things must change to something new, to something strange.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: 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
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.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor's nose.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Learn to labour and to wait.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, 1839
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