I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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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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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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