Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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