Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

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

“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.”

“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.”