Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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