All Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. 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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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