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 LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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