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.

Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure...

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure...

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in...

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow...

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow...

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

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...

Resolve and thou art free.

Resolve and thou art free.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years...

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years...

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.

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

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

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

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical...

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

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

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...

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the...

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the...

Evil is only good perverted.

Evil is only good perverted.