If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMorality 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 life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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