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 LONGFELLOWThe human voice is the organ of the soul.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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