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 LONGFELLOWThe 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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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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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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