For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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