In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
-
-
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 -
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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 -
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
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 -
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW