In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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