Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.

  The Ladder of St. Augustine, st. 10.

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• I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

  Christmas Bells, Stanza 1In context

  • Christmas

• If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Drift-wood. QuoteInvestigator (Aug. 19, 2019)

  • Enemies

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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