Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Resolve and thou art free.

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

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

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

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.

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.

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

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Evil is only good perverted.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

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

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

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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

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

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.