For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWYouth comes but once in a lifetime.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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 love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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