I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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