Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Evil is only good perverted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good, Evil, Perverted

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature, Art, Reproduced

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Greatest, Mercy, Firmness

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Others, Himself, Safe

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful, Character, Evil

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Perfect, Feminine

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Bought, Gives

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Religion, Find, Place

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk, Affection, Wasted

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Again, Fountain, Returns

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Night, Nor

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunshine, Old, House

The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Human, Soul, Voice

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Night, Dawn, Darker

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Love, Nothing

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Freedom, Thought, Takes

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Rain, Fall

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

Nature, Mind, Person

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Once, Youth, Lifetime

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

Challenge, Army, Critics

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Destiny, Fame, Inevitable

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Work, Art, Heart

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

Long, Enough, Sure

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

Joy, Door, Nose

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Defeat, Ourselves, Triumph

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27, 1807

Died: March 24, 1882

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