Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
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More Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
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.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
More on Dreams
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.