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Us Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.
- As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,…
- Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so.
- Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just
- Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With…
- What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
- Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor…
- Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.
- So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
- Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
- All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to…
- It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By…
- A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
- Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
- Let us then, be up and doing.
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark…
- Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and…
- Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
- Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But…
- Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
- Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
- Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
- Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And,departing,leave behnd us Footprints on the sands of time.
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, whjle others judge us by what we have already done.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong