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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. But when she was bad she was horrid. Consult the dead upon things that were, but the living only on things that are. Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Excelsior! For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think. Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. Learn to labour and to wait. Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. 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. Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. 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. Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. 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. 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. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring. The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. This memory brightens o'er the past; as when the sun, concealed; behind some cloud that near us hangs; shines on a distant field. Three Kings came riding from far away: Melchior and Gaspar and Balthazar. Three Wise Men out of the East were they, And they travelled by night and they slept by day; For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star. To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Youth comes but once in a lifetime. |
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