Author Topic: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~  (Read 13722 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #60 on: October 16, 2014, 01:26:14 PM »
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.

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Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #61 on: October 16, 2014, 01:28:32 PM »
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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Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #62 on: October 16, 2014, 01:30:43 PM »
Each morning sees some task begin each evening sees it close; Something attempted something done has earned a night's repose.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #63 on: October 16, 2014, 01:36:24 PM »
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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Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #64 on: October 16, 2014, 01:37:26 PM »
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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Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #65 on: October 16, 2014, 01:46:16 PM »
Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #66 on: October 16, 2014, 01:46:51 PM »
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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« Reply #67 on: October 16, 2014, 01:48:20 PM »
The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #68 on: October 16, 2014, 01:49:11 PM »
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth good-will to men!

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #69 on: October 16, 2014, 01:49:55 PM »
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #70 on: October 16, 2014, 01:50:43 PM »
And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #71 on: October 16, 2014, 01:51:19 PM »
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again.

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Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #72 on: October 16, 2014, 01:51:56 PM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #73 on: October 16, 2014, 01:52:36 PM »
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night.

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Re: ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes ~
« Reply #74 on: October 16, 2014, 01:53:13 PM »
There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid.