Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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