Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

"And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on night
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"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on nostalgia
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"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on passion
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"Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on patience   

"All things come round to him who will but wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on patience   

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on peace
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"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on perseverance   

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on perseverance   

"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on art
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"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on art   

"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on present   

"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on progress   

"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on progress   

"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on pursuit   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on reason
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"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on remorse   

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on reverie   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on self-respect
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"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on sacrifice
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"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on service   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on simplicity
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"You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on sincerity   

"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on socializing and socialism
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"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on solitude
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"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on studying   

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on success   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on suffering   

"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on beginning   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on books - reading   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on books - reading   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on change   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on character   

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"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on thoughts and thinking   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on time   

"Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on tomorrow   

"In ourselves are triumph and defeat."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on victory   

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on vision
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"The human voice is the organ of the soul."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on voice   

"Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on voice   

"The world loves a spice of wickedness."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on wickedness   

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