A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
- Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
- The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.
- The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
- If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
- Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
- To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
- Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
- A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
- Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.
- Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
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- Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.