Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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