Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things must change to something new, to something strange.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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