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 LONGFELLOW
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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.
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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 love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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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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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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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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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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