Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on cloudy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow86 quotes“Morality 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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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