People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW