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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.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Into each life some rain must fall.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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.