The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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 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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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