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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

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

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

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Motivational, Archery
'Elegiac Verse' (1880)

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Life, Kindness
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Forgiveness, Ideas

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Motivational, Time
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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
Inspirational, Success, Perseverance
'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Time, Sorrow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love, Inspirational, Sweet
"Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Success, Motivation
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.44

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Life, Death
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Happiness, Adversity
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Summer, Running
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Dream, Illusion
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.18, Wildside Press LLC

Time is the life of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Soul

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Success, Running

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Men, Genius
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Hope, Gone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Hyperion, illustr. from drawings by B. Foster”, p.4

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.97

Every human heart is human.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Heart, Humanity
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha: Illustr., from Designs by George H. Thomas”, p.4

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