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 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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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