There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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