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 LONGFELLOWJoy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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