That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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