Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.

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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.

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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

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By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

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The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

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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.

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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

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The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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