As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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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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