Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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 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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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