Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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