People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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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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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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