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.

Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: Age Quotes

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal...

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal...

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the...

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the...

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each...

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each...

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as...

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as...

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but...

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but...

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of...

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of...

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come...

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come...

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But...

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But...

Into each life some rain must fall.

Into each life some rain must fall.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that...

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that...

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find...

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find...

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done,...

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done,...

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when...

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when...