Music is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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