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 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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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