Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPerseverance 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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