The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHowever things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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