Feb 20, 2007

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said a lot of great things.


Here are some of them:

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

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

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

"Resolve and thou art free."

"Into each life some rain must fall."

"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."

"Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted."

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. "

1 comment:

kyality said...

Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the 18th of April in '75 hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year. Dang that's all I remember—used to have it memorized.