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

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

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God, Time, Future
"A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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

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

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Learning, Heart
"A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful, Dream, Time
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy Birthday, Time, Stars
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love, Time, Twilight
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.164

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature, Time, Spring
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Complete Works”

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Time, Art
"A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Age, May
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Glasses, Spy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Heart, Hands
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Birthday, Time, Heart
'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Twilight, Doors
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.473

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love, Time, Retirement
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.49

Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Age, Horizon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Moving, Men
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Morning, Fall
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1899). “the Compelete Poetical Works”

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Glasses, Church
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Men, Thinking
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

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