As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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