Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time ... is the life of the soul.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

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

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Into each life some rain must fall.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow