Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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