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Music is the universal language of mankind.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Music]
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Integrity]
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Daydreaming]
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Past]
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.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Libraries]
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Night]
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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Cities]
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow more quotations on [Angels]
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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