1819-1892, American Poet
There is not grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Grief]
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Illusion]
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Thoughts and Thinking]
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Difficulties]
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Remorse]
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Age and Aging]
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Difficulties]
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Present]
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Progress]
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Judgment and Judges]
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Grief]
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Age and Aging]
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Death and Dying]
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Conceit]
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Danger]
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere — ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Courage]
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Friends and Friendship]
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Sincerity]
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Youth]
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