Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSomething attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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