"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."
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Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"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."
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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Into each life some rain must fall."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Music is the universal language of mankind."
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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"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."
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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow