Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Iron Quotes, Doors Quotes

As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

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Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

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Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

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That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

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The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

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Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

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I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.

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Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

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