American - Poet | February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882
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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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