Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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