Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

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

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.

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.

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

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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

Evil is only good perverted.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

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

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

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

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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

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.

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

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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

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.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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

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.

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