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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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