Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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