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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Funny, Positive

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Weed, Kindness, Flower

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Positive, Single, Wise
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men, Dreamer, Shadow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.225

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Clouds, Shining, Sun
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1865). “Household Poems”, p.20

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Education, Spiritual
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.3

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Inspiring, Sympathy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sympathy, Death, Grief

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Regret, Men, Average

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Memories, Heart, Mind

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silence, Soul, Solitude
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1522, Delphi Classics

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Success, Waiting, Excellence

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
Life, Happiness, Sad

Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not. He is a fool; shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not. He is a child; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows. He is a king; follow him. 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
Kings, Children, Night

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Healing, Heart, Perfect
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1264, Jazzybee Verlag

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Goodbye, Art, Business
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Lying, Fall
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Motivational, Depression, Adversity
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature, Rain, Struggle
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love, Life, Confused
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2083, Delphi Classics

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Mistake, Learning
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.323

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Victory, May, Defeat
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
World, Glorious, God Within Us
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.55, Jazzybee Verlag

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dream, Men, Fundraising
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.746, Library of America

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