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 LONGFELLOWGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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 best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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