As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSomething attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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