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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBuild today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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If 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.
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