"We often excuse our own want of philanthropy……" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others."
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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439 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a…
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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images,…
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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
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Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
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Learn to labour and to wait.
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion…
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the…
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
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