Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

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

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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.

Into each life some rain must fall.