The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThat which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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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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 foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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 best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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