Evil is only good perverted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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