People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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