Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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