It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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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.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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