Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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