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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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