Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMethod is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things come round to him who will but wait.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMan is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove gives itself; it is not bought.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW