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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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