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 LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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