Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBuild today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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