Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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