Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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 takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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