“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
“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.”
StrengthAll Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Education“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Best“Resolve and thou art free.”
Art“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“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“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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
Intelligence“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
Change“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“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”
Nature“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
Strength“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“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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
Learning“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
Art“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
Time“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
Freedom