If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
- Learn to labour and to wait.
- Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
- 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.
- Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
- Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
- If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
- Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted.
- A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
- Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
- Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Best Quotes
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- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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- There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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- In a gentle way, you can shake the world.