A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWI have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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 thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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