The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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 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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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