A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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