I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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 dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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