Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love gives itself, it is not bought.

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close, Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Evil is only good perverted.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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.

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.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Into each life some rain must fall.

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

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

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

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate, still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

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

Love gives itself, it is not bought.

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.

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

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

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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.

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.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness, So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Resolve and thou art free.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless, love is eternal.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting, it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.