Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEach morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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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.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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