Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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