The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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