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
- A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
- The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.
- Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. 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.
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
- 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.
- You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
- Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
- Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
Best Quotes
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- The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
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- For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
- It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
- But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
- It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.