That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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