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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMan 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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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