All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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