He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
-
-
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Resolve and thou art free.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
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 -
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW