The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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 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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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