However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHowever things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMorality 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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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 LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLives 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 LONGFELLOWWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGo forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWI have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWResolve and thou art free.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things must change to something new, to something strange.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFor his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMusic is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW