Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a clo

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a clo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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