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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.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Ghosts
#Hill
#House
#Old
#Sunshine
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Being
#Life
#Like
#Perfect
#Structure
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Coat
#Mind
#Nature
#Person
#She
Evil is only good perverted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Evil
#Good
#Only
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Errors
#Man
#More
#Sometimes
#Virtues
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Beautiful
#Character
#Evil
#Loved
#Think
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Army
#Challenge
#Critics
#Letters
#New
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Always
#Foolish
#Leave
#Passion
#Pretend
Resolve and thou art free.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Art
#Free
#Resolve
#Thou Art
#Thou
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Demand
#Freedom
#Only
#People
#Power
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Large
#Leave
#Liberal
#Mind
#Scholar
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Destiny
#Fame
#Inevitable
#Only
#Then
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Freedom
#Man
#Out
#Servitude
#Thought
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Art
#Counterfeit
#Counterpart
#Nature
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Firmness
#Greatest
#Mercy
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#All Things
#Mind
#Poetic
#Pure
#Things
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Better
#Give
#May
#Somebody
#Think
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Devotion
#Enemies
#Enemy
#Hands
#Man
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Above
#Aim
#Little
#Mark
#Must
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Control
#Enemies
#Snake
#Strength
#Wish
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Heart
#Therefore
#Thy
#Trust
#World
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Dead
#Distance
#Morality
#Religion
#Sea
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Criticism
#Strength
#Thing
#Weakness
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Gain
#Prize
#Pursuing
#Vanquished
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Exquisite
#Like
#Music
#Passed
#She
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Bought
#Gives
#Itself
#Love
All things come round to him who will but wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#All Things
#Round
#Things
#Wait
#Will
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Better
#Cloak
#Cold
#Love
#Than
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Evil
#Failure
#Good
#Success
#Things
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Done
#Earned
#Nights
#Repose
#Something
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Ambition
#Never
#Passion
#Satisfied
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Earth
#Genius
#Men
#Society
#Stone
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Dreams
#Life
#Man
#Seeing
#Service
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#City
#Feel
#Great
#Man
#Sweet
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Dawn
#Eternal
#Love Is
#Love
#Night
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Enough
#Gate
#Long
#Loud
#Wake Up
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Great
#People
#Small Things
#Succeed
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Darker
#Dawn
#Nearer
#Night
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Affection
#Never
#Talk
#Wasted
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Again
#Forth
#Fountain
#Returns
#Which
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#First
#Life
#Love
#Nothing
#Wings
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Doctor
#Door
#Joy
#Nose
#Temperance
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Coat
#He
#Mail
#Others
#Safe
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Clamor
#Crowded
#Defeat
#Street
#Triumph
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Know
#Man
#Surprise
#Time
#Will
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Books
#Education
#Learning
#Love
#Sweet
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Find
#Golden
#House
#Intelligence
#Room
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Defeat
#Ourselves
#Triumph
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Change
#New
#Something
#Strange
#Things
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Doing
#Fate
#Heart
#Labor
#Wait
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Doing
#Fame
#Nothing
#Success
#Talent
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Common
#Fall
#Fate
#Life
#Rain
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Chance
#Heart
#Life
#Together
#Water
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Human Voice
#Human
#Organ
#Soul
#Voice
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Capable
#Doing
#Done
#Feel
#Judge
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Hard Words
#Hard
#Heart
#Jacket
#Words
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Either
#Hammer
#Man
#Must
#World
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Build
#Find
#Place
#Today
#Tomorrow
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Color
#Idle
#Mind
#Sit
#Waves
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Character
#Excellence
#Simplicity
#Style
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Day
#Filled
#Invisible
#Sky
#Stars
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.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Age
#Day
#Evening
#Opportunity
#Sky
#Youth
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Behind
#Feel
#Go
#Pain
#Stay
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.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Gate
#Great
#Long
#Perseverance
#Success
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Explain
#Right
#Time
#Why
#Wrong
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Character
#Excellence
#Simplicity
#Style
Music is the universal language of mankind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Language
#Mankind
#Music
#Universal
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Begins
#Difficult
#Know
#Love
#Moment
Into each life some rain must fall.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Fall
#Life
#Must
#Rain
#Some
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Lifetime
#Once
#Teen
#Youth
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Does
#Grief
#Like
#Speak
#Sympathy
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.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#History
#Life
#Man
#Sad
#Suffering
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Cold
#Man
#Sad
#Secret
#World
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Best
#Nature
#Rain
#Raining
#Thing
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Done
#Evening
#Morning
#Night
#Task
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, 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.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Darkness
#Life
#Look
#Night
#Silence
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Better
#Learning
#Man
#Wise Man
#Wise
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Behind
#Great Men
#Great
#Men
#Time
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Great Men
#Great
#Heights
#Men
#Night
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Fear
#Future
#Heart
#Look
#Past
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