The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
-
-
Evil is only good perverted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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 -
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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 -
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 -
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW -
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW