It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFor 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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