The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWI have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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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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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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