“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”
Dreams
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
EducationAll Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Sad“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Education“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
Freedom“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
Time“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
Sympathy“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
Freedom“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.”
Great“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
Music“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.”
History“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“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.”
Religion“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“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
Love“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Best“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
Intelligence“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”
Nature“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
Change“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”
Failure“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