Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
47 quotations
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Resolve and thou art free.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.