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 LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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