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 LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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