Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf 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.
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 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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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