Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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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.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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