Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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