Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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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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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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