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 LONGFELLOWJoy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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