As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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