Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFor his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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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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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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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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