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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBy dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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