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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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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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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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