The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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