27th February: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born this date in 1807. Here are some quotes.

1. The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
2. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
3. Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
4. Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
5. They who go feel not the pain of parting; it is they who stay behind that suffer.
6. There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
7. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
8. 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.
9. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
10. 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.