The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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