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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.
4.3 · 45 votes · 15 reads
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Defects
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
4.0 · 19 votes · 103 reads
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Various
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
3.0 · 15 votes · 131 reads
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Time
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
4.5 · 13 votes · 21 reads
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Feelings
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
3.9 · 8 votes · 113 reads
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Feelings
Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
4.5 · 16 votes · 183 reads
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Thought and Reason
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
3.9 · 43 votes · 85 reads
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Virtues
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
3.9 · 35 votes · 140 reads
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Various
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, 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.
3.8 · 27 votes · 146 reads
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Virtues
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
3.6 · 18 votes · 194 reads
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Government and Politics
Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
4.8 · 36 votes · 186 reads
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Various
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
3.0 · 55 votes · 69 reads
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Feelings
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
4.5 · 59 votes · 91 reads
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Nature
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
3.5 · 34 votes · 195 reads
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Thought and Reason
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
4.4 · 52 votes · 104 reads
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Time
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
3.4 · 47 votes · 19 reads
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Art and Culture
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
3.3 · 14 votes · 168 reads
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Society
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
5.0 · 58 votes · 3 reads
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Defects
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
4.8 · 42 votes · 65 reads
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Thought and Reason
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
4.8 · 58 votes · 79 reads
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Time
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
4.7 · 52 votes · 142 reads
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Society
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
3.6 · 35 votes · 187 reads
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Time
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
3.8 · 50 votes · 165 reads
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Nature
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
4.2 · 45 votes · 172 reads
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Defects
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
4.0 · 21 votes · 99 reads
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Feelings
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
3.1 · 57 votes · 48 reads
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Virtues
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
4.0 · 61 votes · 151 reads
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Feelings
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship. Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
3.7 · 59 votes · 0 reads
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Virtues
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
4.1 · 57 votes · 64 reads
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Time
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
3.1 · 6 votes · 142 reads
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