A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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