Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Perseverance 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.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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