Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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