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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Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray, The tumult of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.
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The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.
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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.
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