American - Poet | February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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