Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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 nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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 dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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