Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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