3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All things must change to something new, to something strange.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
