People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove gives itself; it is not bought.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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