Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The height of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctors nose.

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The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern unseen before, A path to higher destinies.

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Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate

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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.

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Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless love is eternal.

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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day.

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Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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Archly the maiden smiled, with eyes overrunning with laughter, Said, in a tremulous voice, Why don't you speak for yourself, John'

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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 feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

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As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows Useless each without the other

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His brow is wet with honest sweat he earns whatever he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.

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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

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And the night shall be filled with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.

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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant Let the dead Past bury its dead Act, act in the living present Heart within, and God o'erhead

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O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried

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Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

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This is the forest primeval.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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