The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMusic is the universal language of mankind.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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