Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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