That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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