People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBy dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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