(212 quotes found)
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”
“Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad”
“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.”
“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
“When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.”
“It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.”
“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.”
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week”