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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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