For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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