Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with o...

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To so...

Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in ...

Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Swe...

Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and d...

Every human heart is human.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suff...

With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow...

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or i...

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their ...

And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents ...

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents ...

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she wa...

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already d...

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, fo...

I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeat...

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth," I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks th...

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....

Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.

Ships that pass in the night.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their ...

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Day of the Lord as all our days should be!

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and i...

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts...

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

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands...

Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars the forget-me-n...

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do.

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

Time ... is the life of the soul.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant vo...

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Presen...

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their compan...

Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears ...

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

Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden be...

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attracti...

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

Each morning sees some task begin each evening sees it close Something attempted something done ...

All things must change To something new to something strange.

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attracti...

Think of your woods and orchards without birds!Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beamsAs in an...

Act-act in the living present!

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream!

Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.

No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds ...

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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

There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning al...

I have you fast in my fortress,And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeon,In the ...

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions aspirations dreams! Book of Beginn...

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like t...

The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Foot...

Why don't you speak for yourself John?

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest.

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

My soul is full of longingfor the secret of the sea,and the heart of the great oceansends a thrillin...

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet se...

This is the forest primeval.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is un...

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

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when h...

Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are...

Into each life some rain must fall.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leave...

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears...

If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already d...

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

Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the...