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

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Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Three Silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, “Providence”.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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