Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study 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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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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