The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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