I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for…

Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore...

He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore...

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers...

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Music is the universal language of mankind

Music is the universal language of mankind

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach...

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach...

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and...

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and...

And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day...

And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day...

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room...

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room...

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and...

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and...

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the...

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the...

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of...

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of...

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure...

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure...