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 LONGFELLOWThought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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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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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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