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 LONGFELLOWLives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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