As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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