Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSpilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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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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