In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHowever things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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