Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
47 quotations
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
There is not grief that does not speak.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.