62 Quotes By 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 on age

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on art

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

Resolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on art

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

All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on change

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 on dreams

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on education

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

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 on fear

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on freedom

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on freedom

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 on future

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 on great

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 on great

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 on great

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 on history

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

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

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