Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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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 sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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