When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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