A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things must change to something new, to something strange.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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