Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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 Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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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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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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