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 LONGFELLOWSomething attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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