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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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Fire Hotter Make Often Thought
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Address Age Another For Itself Less Opportunity Through Youth
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Man 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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Again Already Come Consequently Himself Man More Suprise Time
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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Army Author Challenge Critic Every Grand New Newspaper Sentence Station
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Attain Companion Fight Great Height Kept Man Raech Slept Sudan Toil
Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Error Man Sometimes Virtue We May Learn
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Do Explain Right Take Thing Time

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