“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
“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
“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”
Failure“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Best“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
Art“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Great“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
Trust“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.”
Morning“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“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“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”
Art“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“Resolve and thou art free.”
Art“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Education“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”
Nature“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
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“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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
Freedom“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“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