“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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Category: life
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“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
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Category: society
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“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
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Category: time
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“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: time
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“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: music
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“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
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“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: strength
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“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
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“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
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“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: art
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