Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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.
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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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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 torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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 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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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