American - Poet | February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882
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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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.
StrengthControlSnakeWishYou
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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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
LifeRainFateFallCommonMust
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
GriefSympathySpeakLikeDoes
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 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.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
TimeYouWrongWhyRightExplain
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
FountainAgainForthWhichReturns
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
LearningManWiseWise ManBetter
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