Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
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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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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
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If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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