People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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