Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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