Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Thoughts and Image
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.
The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Today is the blocks with which we build.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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 best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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.
Nothing is or can be accidental with God.
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.
Defeat may be victory in disguise.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
All things must change To something new, to something strange.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
The soul...is audible, not visible.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.
Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.
In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.