Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Clever Quotes , Dirty Quotes

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Air Quotes , Water Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Running Quotes , Distance Quotes

Perseverance is a great element of success.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Success Quotes , Sports Quotes

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Noble Quotes , Heroic Quotes

To be strong is to be happy!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Strong Quotes

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Poverty Quotes

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Time Quotes , Age Quotes

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Winning Quotes , Air Quotes

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Holiday Quotes

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Support Quotes , Useless Quotes

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Phrases Quotes , Acres Quotes

What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Pain Quotes

How like they are to human things!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Flower Quotes

Even cities have their graves!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Cities Quotes

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , People Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Happiness Quotes

Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Thee Quotes , Authorship Quotes

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Time Quotes

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Names Quotes , Giving Quotes