Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Old age holds the same possibilities as youth, only in different clothes.

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Don't look at the past with nostalgia. He will not return. Deal wisely with your present. He is yours. Go forward, into the uncertain future, without fear and with a brave heart.

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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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No matter how cruel fate may be to a man, no matter how abandoned and lonely he may be, there will always be a heart, even if unknown to him, open to answer his heart's call.

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When nature leaves a deficiency in one's mind, it usually applies a thick layer of complacency over it.

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Love offers itself as a gift; it is impossible to buy it.

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The young may die, the old must.

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

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We judge ourselves by our ability to accomplish, while others judge us by what we have already accomplished.

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Do not say of love that it is wasted in vain! Love never goes in vain; even if she has not enriched the other's heart, the waters of love, returning to their source, will fill him, like rain, with freshness and coolness.

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In character, in manners, in style, in everything, the most beautiful is simplicity.

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This desire and sadness is not agony or pain, it is related to tears, as fog and rain are related.

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Everything in life is a construction of fate, wedged into the walls of time. Don't look at the past with a sad face, because it will never come back.

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Every person is hurt by something that they hide from the world and we often label them as cold, even though they are just sad.

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Half my life there, and year after year, I left it to run away: the Dream of my youth, a tower built of songs, Proud, tall - only a dream remained. Not in the wake of dullness or passion, I was attacked by wild restlessness, happy days, But it was trouble and trouble that didn't let me do what was in front of me.

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If we could see into the souls of our enemies, we would find so much sadness and suffering that we would soften towards them.

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It takes less time to do something well than to explain why it didn't work.

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If your zest for life is gone and you feel insecure, just think about this: the low tide is always followed by the high tide.

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Most people could succeed in small things if they didn't get into trouble because of their big ambitions.

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We judge ourselves by what we think we can do, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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Nothing is bad or useless. Everything is best in its place.

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The man of song was sent by God so that his song could be joyful and sad, soften the hard heart and take us to heaven.

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Wake up, my heart sings about you when you are near, with such joy as trees singing with sighs in the month of strawberry ripening.