Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes
"Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture."
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"All things must change to something new, to something strange."
"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
"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."
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
"We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself."
"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."