The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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.
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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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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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