Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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."
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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
"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
"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
"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
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."
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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"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
"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions aspirations dreams! Book of Beginnings Story without End Each maid a heroine and each man a friend!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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