Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellowwas an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 February 1807
CityPortland, ME
CountryUnited States of America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes about
time heart learning
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
spring autumn youth
It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
time mistake learning
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
friendship best-friend true-friend
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
friendship best-friend firsts
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.
weed kindness flower
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.
time future heart
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
leadership work character
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
errors sorrow looks
Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.
sunset sky fire
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
voice soul organs
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
lord should sabbath
Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
towns like-me boast
A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.
progress world care
Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.