The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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