Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes

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

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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.

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.

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.

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

Music is the universal language of mankind.

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

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.

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

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

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

Resolve and thou art free.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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.

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