Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Character
-
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.
→ -
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
→ -
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
→ -
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.
→ -
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
→ -
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
→ -
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
→ -
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.
→
Related Authors
-
James F. Cooper Writer -
Robert Frost Poet -
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist -
Dante Alighieri Poet -
Louisa May Alcott Novelist -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Herman Melville Novelist -
William Wordsworth Poet -
Washington Irving Author -
James Russell Lowell Poet -
Langston Hughes Poet -
John Keats Poet -
Paul Revere Silversmith -
-
Walt Whitman Poet -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician -
Henry David Thoreau Author -
Emily Dickinson Poet -
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist -
William C. Bryant Poet