Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things come round to him who will but wait.
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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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 single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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