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 LONGFELLOWA thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The 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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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