The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHe that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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