“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Music
“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
FreedomAll Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
Intelligence“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“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”
Dreams“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“Resolve and thou art free.”
Art“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
Freedom“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”
Nature“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
Trust“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Best“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“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“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
Love“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
Strength“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
Education“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“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.”
Morning