Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes (8)
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
— 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"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
— 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"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow