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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Evil is only good perverted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Evil Good Only Pervert
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Another Darkness Ocean Pass Shown Signal Silence Speak
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Disarm Each Enemy Enough History Live Man Read Secret Sorrow Suffer
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Firmness Greatest Mercy
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Character Excellence Manner Simplicity Supreme Thing
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Control Enemies Important Method More Strength Wish
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Common Each Fate Into Let Life Must Fail Rain Some Then
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Each Other Night Pass Ship Speak
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Contact Large Leave Liberal Mind Other Scholar Would
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Anvil Either Hammer Man Must World
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Crown Grace Helicon Many Mouldering Muses Old People Person Poet Sunshine Too Visit
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Build Strong Sure Today
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Best Do Get Let One Rain Thing
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 LONGFELLOW

Attain Companion Fight Great Height Kept Man Raech Slept Sudan Toil
Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Each Fail Into Life Must Some Train

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