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All Quotes by author - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" All things come round to him who will but wait. "

" All things must change to something new, to something strange. "

" Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. "

" A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. "

" As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. "

" A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. "

" A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. "

" Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. "

" Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. "

" Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. "

" Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. "

" Evil is only good perverted. "

" Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. "

" 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. "

" For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. "

" Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think. "

" He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. "

" However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. "

" 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. "

" If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. "

" If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. "

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

" In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. "

" Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. "

" In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. "

" Into each life some rain must fall. "

" It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. "

" It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. "

" It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. "

" It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. "

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