Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMethod is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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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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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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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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