35 quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“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

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

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

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“Resolve and thou art free.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“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

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

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“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“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

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

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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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“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

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“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

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

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

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“Music is the universal language of mankind.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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