Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on cloudy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow86 quotes“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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Evil is only good perverted.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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