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 LONGFELLOWIt is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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