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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.
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.
Hyperion (1839)
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.
Hyperion (1839)
World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old.
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love,
And next to love the sweetest thing is hate!
The Spanish Student (1843)
Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Does not all the blood within me
Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
As the springs to meet the sunshine.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round,
If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Morituri Salutamus (1875)
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
Is the best picture.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
Hyperion (1839)
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.