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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I stood on the bridge at midnight, / As the clocks were striking the hour.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
‘Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.’
For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.’
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow