It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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