926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.