People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhen she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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