Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWYouth comes but once in a lifetime.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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