Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe nearer the dawn the darker the night.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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