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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Ability category:
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Acceptance category:
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Accidents category:
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, / That nothing with God can be accidental. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Accomplishment category:
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Aging category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Ambition category:
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Architecture category:
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Architecture category:
The architect / Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, / And with him toiled his children, and their lives / Were builded, with his own, into the walls, / As offerings unto God. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Art category:
Art is the child of Nature. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Art category:
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, / And out hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Artists category:
Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Beginning category:
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Books category:
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, / And all the sweet serenity of books. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Challenge category:
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Change category:
All things must change to something new, to something strange. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Character category:
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Children category:
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Commerce category:
Love gives itself; it is not bought. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Construction category:
In the elder days of Art, / Builders wrought with greatest care / Each minute and unseen part; / For the gods see everywhere. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Criticism category:
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Critics category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Deception category:
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Depression category:
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Desperation category:
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Destiny category:
Thy fate is the common fate of all; / Into each life some rain must fall. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Disappointment category:
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Dreams category:
Dreams... They lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Education category:
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Emotion category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Environment category:
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Excellence category:
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Expectation category:
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Failure category:
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Fame category:
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Finishing category:
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Fire category:
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Freedom category:
People demand freedom only when they have no power. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Friendship category:
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Future category:
Build today, then strong and sure / With a firm and ample base / And ascending and secure / Shall tomorrow find its place. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Gender category:
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Generosity category:
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Genius category:
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Goodness category:
Evil is only good perverted. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Grace category:
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Growth category:
Kind hearts are the gardens, / Kind thoughts are the roots, / Kind words are the flowers, / Kind deeds are the fruits, / Take care of your garden / And keep out the weeds, / Fill it with sunshine / Kind words and kind deeds. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Happiness category:
The happy days unclouded to their close; / The sudden joys that hour of darkness start / As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart / Like swallows singing down each wind that blows! (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Health category:
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Hope category:
-An April Day
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; / Behind the clouds the sun is shining; / Thy fate is the common fate of all, / Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Humanity category:
The human voice is the organ of the soul. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Immortality category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Indolence category:
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Insecurity category:
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Intellect category:
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Life category:
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, / Life is checkered shade and sunshine. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Life category:
Life is real! Life is earnest! / And the grave is not its goal; / Dust thou art, to dust returnest, / Was not spoken of the soul. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Light category:
I see, but cannot reach, the height / That lies forever in the light. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Listening category:
-Tales of a Wayside Inn
Listen, every one / That listen may, unto a tale / That's merrier than the nightingale. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Love category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Memory category:
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Morality category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Music category:
Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Mysteries category:
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Nature category:
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Nature category:
No tears/ Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Patience category:
All things come round to him who will but wait. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Perseverance category:
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Perseverance category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Persistence category:
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. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Pleasure category:
Our pleasures and our discontents, / Are rounds by which we may ascend. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Poetry category:
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Progress category:
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; / But to act, that each to-morrow / Finds us further than to-day. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Questions category:
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man? (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Rejection category:
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Religion category:
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Revelation category:
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Rewards category:
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Sadness category:
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Satisfaction category:
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close / Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Sculpture category:
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, / That fashions all her works in high relief, / And that is Sculpture. / This vast ball, the Earth, / Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; / Men, women, and all animals that breathe / Are statues, and not paintings. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Silence category:
The holiest of all holidays are those / Kept by ourselves in silence and apart... (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Sleep category:
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Standards category:
Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Strength category:
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Success category:
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. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Success category:
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Suffering category:
Know how sublime a thing it is / To suffer and be strong. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Suffering category:
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Suffering category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Thought category:
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Timeliness category:
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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Trust category:
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Truth category:
Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Universe category:
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Unknowns category:
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Vulnerability category:
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Windows category:
The light upon her face / Shines from the windows of another world. / Saints only have such faces. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Wisdom category:
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Wonder category:
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Work category:
Let us, then, be up and doing, /With a heart for any fate;/ Still achieving, still pursuing,/ Learn to labour and to wait. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - From the Writing category:
Look, then, into thine heart, and write! (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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