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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1807-1882] American

Rank: 4
Poet (with poems)

Didactism, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Vernacular, Victorian

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

Great, Learning, Life, Love, Nature, Sad, Success, Time, Age, Art, Best, Chance, Change, Dreams, Education, Failure, Fear, Freedom, Future, History, Intelligence, Men, Morning, Religion, Society, Strength, Sympathy, Teen, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.	Best, Nature	101
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.		102
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.		103
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.	Time	104
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.	Education, Learning, Love	105
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.	Learning	106
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.	Chance	107
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.		108
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.	Time	109
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.	Sad	110
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.	Age	111
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.	History, Sad	112
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.		113
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.	Success	114
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.	Great, Men	115
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.		116
Into each life some rain must fall.	Life	117
All things come round to him who will but wait.		118
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.	Intelligence	119
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.		120
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.		121
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.	Teen	122
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.		123
The human voice is the organ of the soul.		124
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.		125
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.	Dreams	126
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.	Strength	201
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.		202
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.	Great	203
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.		204
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.	Success	205
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.		206
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.	Morning	207
All things must change to something new, to something strange.	Change	208
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.		209
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.		210
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.	Art, Nature	211
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.		212
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.	Life	213
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.	Sympathy	214
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.		215
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.		216
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.		217
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.		218
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.		219
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.	Fear, Future	220
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.		221
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.		222
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.		223
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.		224
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.		225
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.	Love	226
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.		301
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.	Religion	302
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.		303
Evil is only good perverted.		304
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.	Freedom	305
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.	Society	306
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.		307
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.		308
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.		309
Resolve and thou art free.		310
Love gives itself; it is not bought.		311
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.	Failure	312
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.		313
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.		314
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.		315
Music is the universal language of mankind.		316
People demand freedom only when they have no power.		317
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.		318
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.		319
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.		320
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.		321
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.		322
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.		323
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.		324
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.	Trust	325
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.		326
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.		401
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.		402
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.		403
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.		404

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