Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 19 of 19 total A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAge 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 LongfellowAll things must change to something new, to something strange. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGive what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIf 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 LongfellowIt 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. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowJoy, temperance, and repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLearn to labour and to wait. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLet us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowLook 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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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 LongfellowTalk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe 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. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875 Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, 1839

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