Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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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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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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