Tag: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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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
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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