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 LONGFELLOWOnly 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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