Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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