Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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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.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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