Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth   

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"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!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth   

"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!"

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on action   

"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on action   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on children   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on children   

"Resolve and thou art free."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on commitment   

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on conceit
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"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on courage   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on courtesy   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on criticism   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on criticism   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on criticism   

"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on cycles   

"Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on anger   

"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on death   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on death   

"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on death   

"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. "

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on uncategorised   

"Silently, one by one,in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on memory