Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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