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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American
Poet
About the author
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Study
#Years
#Man
#Books
#Conversation
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Will
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Defeat
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Language
#Music
#Mankind
Evil is only good perverted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Evil
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#World
#Man
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Night
#Evening
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Challenge
#Army
#Letters
#Newspapers
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Today
#Tomorrow
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Mind
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Passion
#Ambition
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Character
#Style
#Simplicity
#Excellence
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Work
#Art
#Heart
#Grace
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#May
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Love
#Night
#Dawn
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Mail
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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Men
#Night
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Success
#May
#Failure
#Evil
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Security
#Man
#Affection
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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Man
#Enemies
#History
#Sorrow
#Suffering
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Observation
#Religion
#Morality
#Sea
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Words
#Heart
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Thought
#Fire
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Change
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#People
#Succeed
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Day
#Youth
#Stars
#Age
#Opportunity
#Dress
#Evening
#Sky
#Twilight
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Mind
#Reverie
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Character
#Style
#Simplicity
#Manners
#Excellence
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Darkness
#Night
#Voice
#Silence
#Ocean
#Ships
Resolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Art
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Success
#Perseverance
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#People
#Freedom
#Power
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Defeat
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#May
#Man
#Errors
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Talk
#Affection
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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Success
#Will
#Nothing
#Thought
#Talent
#Fame
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Youth
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Will
#Enemy
#Man
#Enemies
#Intention
#Benefits
#Devotion
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Self
#Mind
#Nature
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Music
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Fate
#Rain
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Thought
#Freedom
#Man
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Pain
#Parting
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Heart
#World
#Trust
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Nothing
#First
#Consciousness
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
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 ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Chance
#Heart
#Word
#Emotion
#Water
#Moments
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Art
#Nature
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Strength
#Criticism
#Lies
#Weakness
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Day
#Stars
#Sky
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Gain
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Night
#Dawn
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Mind
#Liberal
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Love
#Books
#Learning
#Serenity
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Dreams
#Man
#Service
#Charity
#Visions
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Soul
#Voice
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Old
#Poets
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Mercy
#Firmness
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Rain
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Grief
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Being
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#World
#Man
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Intelligence
#Courtesy
Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Life
#Rain
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Character
#Evil
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Love
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Passion
#Wounds
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Time
#Right
#Wrong
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Destiny
#Fame
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Joy
#Temperance
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Time
#Men
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Heart
#Fear
#Past
#Present
#Future
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Love
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Love
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Time
#Will
#Man
#Accomplishments
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Earth
#Men
#Society
#Genius
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
Poet
#Strength
#Enemies
#Control