Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

age

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

art

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

art

Resolve and thou art free.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

art

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

best

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

change

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

dreams

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

education

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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failure

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

fear

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

freedom

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

freedom

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

future

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

great

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

great

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

great

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

history

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

intelligence

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

learning

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

learning

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

life

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

life

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

love

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

love

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

men

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

men

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

morning

Music is the universal language of mankind.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

music

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

music

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

nature

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

nature

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

nature

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

power

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

religion

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

sad

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Resolve and thou art free.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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.

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.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

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.

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.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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.

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.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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