Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sad, Often, Secret

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great, Men, Night

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature, Best, Rain

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

Love, Moment, Difficult

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 Longfellow

Life, Silence, Night

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Learning, Wise, Single

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

Passion, Leave, Foolish

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

Success, Great, Long

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time, Great, Men

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Future, Fear, Heart

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Education, Love, Learning

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Heart, Together

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

Heart, Hard, Words

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, History, Find

Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Rain, Fall

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Character, Style, Simplicity

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

Age, Evening, Away

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

Life, Dreams, Service

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

Morning, Evening, Done

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sympathy, Speak, Grief

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pain, Behind, Stay

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

Time, Why, Wrong

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Either, Hammer, Anvil

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

Mind, Color, Break

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

Character, Style, Simplicity

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27, 1807

Died: March 24, 1882

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