The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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