People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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