The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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