There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMusic is the universal language of mankind.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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