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 LONGFELLOWLet us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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