Author Profile
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 – 1882 • American • Poet
61
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesThe 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.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow