“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
Success
“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
ArtAll Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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.”
Age“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
Freedom“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
Intelligence“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Best“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
Society“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.”
Strength“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
Love“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
Learning“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
Freedom“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”
Dreams“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Music“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”
Life“Resolve and thou art free.”
Art“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
Time“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.”
Morning“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
Music“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
Trust“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.”
Great“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Education