As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWResolve and thou art free.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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