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…
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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.
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.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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.
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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.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Resolve and thou art free.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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.