Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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