Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 1

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

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

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

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

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

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.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

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.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

All things are symbols.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

The soul never grows old.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Resolve and thou art free.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Every human heart is human.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Art is the child of Nature.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Evil is only good perverted.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

To be strong is to be happy!

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Learn to labour and to wait.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Let us then, be up and doing.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Time is the life of the soul.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Death is better than disease.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Tis always morning somewhere.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Even cities have their graves!

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Silence is a great peacemaker.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

The bravest are the tenderest.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

The natural alone is permanent.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Books are sepulchres of thought.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

A boy's will is the wind's will.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Every man has his secret sorrows.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

My own thoughts Are my companions.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Life like an empty dream flits by.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

How like they are to human things!

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

My Book and Heart Shall never part.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Nothing with God can be accidental.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Fair words gladden so many a heart.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

The soul...is audible, not visible.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Let us be merciful as well as just.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Into each life some rain must fall.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

The young may die, but the old must!

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

I love thee, as the good love heaven.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Poet

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.