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.

Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

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.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room...

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room...

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...

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world...

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world...

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...

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...

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping...

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping...

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.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to...

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to...

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of...

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of...

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why...

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why...

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...

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we...

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we...

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car...

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car...