Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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 best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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 come round to him who will but wait.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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