Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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