Poet · American · 1807 – 1882 · 81 quotes
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet · American · 1807 – 1882
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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.
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.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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.
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.
Evil is only good perverted.
Resolve and thou art free.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
