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 LONGFELLOWThe nearer the dawn the darker the night.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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 single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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,
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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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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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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