A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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