Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 

  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Rain, Struggle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

• However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Congratulations, Failure, Evil

• There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Water, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation

• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Leadership, Work, Character

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

• A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Heart, Parenting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

• Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Literature, Cold

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.52

• Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Perfection, Simplicity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

• The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Motivational, Depression, Adversity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

• Resolve and thou art free.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Freedom, Commitment

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.811, Jazzybee Verlag

• For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Heart, Grace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.116, Library of America

• Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Personality, Triumph

  'The Poets' (1876)

• The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mind, Literature, Should

• Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Mistake, Learning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.323

• The 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 Longfellow

  Success, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Hyperion”, p.66

• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Lying, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

• That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Return, Fountain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.252

• They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Suffering, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. 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

  Snakes, Crow, Enemy

• 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

  Running, Distance, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Powerful, Passion

• Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Reality, Men, Hands

• Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fate, Destiny, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

• People demand freedom only when they have no power.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Freedom, People, Liberty

• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Mercy, Firmness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin