Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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