Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - 9quotes.com

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Written by 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.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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