The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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