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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance 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.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
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