Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvery man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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