When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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