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 LONGFELLOWEach morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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