They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things must change to something new, to something strange.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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