Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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