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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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 best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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