Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Only 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.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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