That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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The 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.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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