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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow86 quotes“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.”
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Evil is only good perverted.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
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How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
Cailin HargreavesCailin Hargreaves The peak of intensity is numbness not emotionless.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg She is everything and nothing at all.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole She built her castle at rock bottom.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Keep growing into yourself.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman The Red Rose on my grave shows once I was in love.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
Bram StokerBram Stoker The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
John Forbes NashJohn Forbes Nash One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
Alan PatonAlan Paton If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me – a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I’d loved him as my everything, long after I’d begun to love him as a friend.
Aimee CarterAimee Carter