KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Showing 21-30 of 82 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1807

Died: March 24th, 1882

Links

Find Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Amazon

Related Authors

Maya Angelou
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
E. E. Cummings

Popular Authors

James A. Baldwin Coco Chanel Thich Nhat Hanh Samuel Johnson Helen Keller Jean-Jacques Rousseau Antoine De Saint-Exupery George Sand

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke

1969 - Jay-Z

1795 - Thomas Carlyle

1835 - Samuel Butler

1860 - Lillian Russell

1865 - Edith Cavell

1866 - Wassily Kandinsky

1892 - Francisco Franco

1908 - Alfred Day Hershey

1908 - Alfred Hershey

Birthdays on December 4th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Cool Courage Dad Freedom Funny Humor Intelligence Positive