People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSpilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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