Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPerseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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