Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every 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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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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