It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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