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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- For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
- The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
- For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
- Resolve and thou art free.
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