Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was 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 Fireside Poets from New England. ...more
Birth: February 27, 1807 - Death: March 24, 1882
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Inspirational , Doe , Character
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Inspirational , Shows , Love
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Men , Years , Book
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Inspirational , Ideas , Forgiving
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the universal language of mankind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Art , Language , Sound
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Writing , Art , Business
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the language spoken by angels.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Language , Music Is , Angel
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Men , Long , Inspirational
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Men , Action , Shadow
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Into each life some rain must fall.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Life , Fall , Inspire
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Men , World , Knows
Best quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Topic(s): Humans , Literature , Powerful