“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: great
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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.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: fear
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“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“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.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: life
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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.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: education
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“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: sympathy
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