The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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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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