Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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