A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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