Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Kelly Marshall


It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.

Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.


Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

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