The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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 counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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