Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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