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 LONGFELLOWSpilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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