The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWOnly 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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