A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLet us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity 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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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 sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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