“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Resolve and thou art free.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The world loves a spice of wickedness.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The human voice is the organ of the soul.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“In ourselves are triumph and defeat.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Simplicity