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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes: Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
         

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.


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