Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

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Time is the life of the soul.

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Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

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Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

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Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

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If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

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The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.

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These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

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The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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

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

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Every human heart is human.

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

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