A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEach morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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.
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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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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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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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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