The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Success
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. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Age
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Learning
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Chance
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sad
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Success
Lives 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 Longfellow Great
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Men
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morning
Lives 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 Longfellow Time
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. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fear
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Society
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. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow History
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Strength
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. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sad
