Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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 counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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