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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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