The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvery man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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