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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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