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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Positive #Wise #Wisdom
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“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Positive #Time #Integrity
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“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
#Inspirational #Motivational #Perseverance
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“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
#Life #Happiness #Sad
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“They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Memorial Day #Names #Honor
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“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Sunday #Together #Golden
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“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Time #Years #Climbing
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“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
#Life #Depressing #Loneliness
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“All things must change To something new, to something strange.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Change #Strange #Something New
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“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Strength #Lying #Criticism
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“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Inspirational #Education #Spiritual
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“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Mind #Poetic #Purity
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“Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Love #Dream #Easter
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“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Art #Heart #Grace
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“The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Love #Night #Love Is
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“Perseverance is a great element of success.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Sports #Perseverance #Elements
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“Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Love #Literature #Cold
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“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Inspirational #Motivational #Time
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“The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Stars #Life And Love #Sky
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“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Character #Personality #Triumph
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“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Inspirational #Motivational #Goal
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“Love gives itself; it is not bought.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Love #Short Love #Giving
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“He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Respect #Self Esteem #Coats
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“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Inspirational #Life #Birthday
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“If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Mind #Forgiving #Body
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“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.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Happy Birthday #Time #Stars
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“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Children #Heart #Parenting
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“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Love #Life #Confused
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“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Dream #Men #Volunteer
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“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.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#Success #Congratulations #Literature
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