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Listed by Author 'henry wordsworth longfellow'
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. "
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility."
"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."
"Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong."
"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be."
"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
"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."
