Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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