Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMan is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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