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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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