Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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