Age Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still…

— Khalil Gibran

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the…

— Paz Marquez Benitez

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

— Mary Baker Eddy

His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

— William Wordsworth

The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for life and…

— Frederick Denison Maurice

“There was a leap of joy in him, like a flame lighting up in a dark lantern. At this moment he believed it was…

— Elizabeth Goudge

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

— Charles Dickens

He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass. As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this without th'…

— Samuel Butler

“Sometimes it takes a period of deep darkness, before we end up seeing the brightest stars...”

— José N. Harris

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very…

— William Mountford