That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWJoy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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