Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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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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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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