Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove gives itself; it is not bought.
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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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