The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLook not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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