Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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.

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

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

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.

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.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

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.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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.

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

Resolve and thou art free.

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

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