Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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 gr...
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own.
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.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow;But that, ah! that was long ago.How far, since then, the ocean streamsHave swept us from that land...
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books
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...
Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth good-will to men!
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.