Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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