The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
-
-
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
All things come round to him who will but wait.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW