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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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,
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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