It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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 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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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