People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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,
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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