If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWOnly 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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