Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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