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 LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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