It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
- Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
- It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
- Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
- To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
- 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.
- If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
- We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
- The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
- You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
Best Quotes
- When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.
- When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.
- Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
- I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
- Every morning is a fresh day,start it with a smile
- But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
- I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.