Best Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowForgiveness -
200
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDifficulties -
300
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStudying -
400
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSuccess -
500
Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSuffering -
600
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThoughts and Thinking -
700
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTime and Time Management -
800
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTomorrow -
900
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBeginning -
1000
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowVictory -
1100
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowVision -
1200
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowVoice -
1300
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 LongfellowSolitude -
1400
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 LongfellowSocializing and Socialism -
1500
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDifficulties -
1600
Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDifficulties -
1700
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDifficulties -
1800
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRemorse -
1900
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowReverie -
2000
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSelf-respect -
2100
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 LongfellowSelf-sacrifice -
2200
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowService -
2300
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSimplicity -
2400
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSincerity -
2500
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowVoice -
2600
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWickedness -
2700
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowConceit -
2800
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere — Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourage -
2900
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourtesy -
3000
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCritics and Criticism -
3100
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCritics and Criticism -
3200
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCritics and Criticism -
3300
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCycles -
3400
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDanger -
3500
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDeath and Dying -
3600
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDeath and Dying -
3700
Resolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCommitment -
3800
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAction -
3900
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAction -
4000
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowYouth -
4100
Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowYouth -
4200
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowYouth -
4300
Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowUncategorised -
4400
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart’s history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBooks and Reading -
4500
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings –as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBooks and Reading -
4600
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChange -
4700
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCharacter -
4800
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChildren -
4900
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowChildren -
5000
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowDeath and Dying -
آنکھ جو کچھ دیکھتی ہے لب پہ آسکتا نہیں محوِ حیرت ہوں کہ دنیا کیا سے کیا ہوجائے گی! 