Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWYouth comes but once in a lifetime.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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