There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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