Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBy dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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