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.
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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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