Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things come round to him who will but wait.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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