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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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