All things come round to him who will but wait.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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 sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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