Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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