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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on age

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

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on city

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on defeat

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on enemy

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!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on friendship

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on health

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on heart

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on life

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on love

The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on nature

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on success

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on thoughts

For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on work

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.
Sophia Loren on beauty

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz on science

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth on marriage

I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.
Jay W. Lorsch on decision

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they’re doing pretty well, all things considered.
Richard Louv on understanding

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover on heart