Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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For 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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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