“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
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“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
SocietyAll Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
Trust“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
Love“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 takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
Time“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“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“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Music“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
Change“Resolve and thou art free.”
Art“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
Freedom“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“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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
Fear“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“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”
Life“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“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
Sympathy“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
Freedom“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
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