1819-1892, American Poet
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Endurance]
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Achievement]
Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Life and Living]
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Life and Living]
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Fame]
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Time and Time Management]
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Love]
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings –as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Books and Reading]
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Socializing and Socialism]
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 – [Morality]
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Ambition]
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Arts and Artists]
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Language]
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Tomorrow]
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 – [Failure]
Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Suffering]
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Dreams]
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Perseverance]
Resolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Commitment]
Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Fate]
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