Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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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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