Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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

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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

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The soul...is audible, not visible.

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In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.

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How like they are to human things!

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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All things are symbols.

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To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

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Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

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The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

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In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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Music is the language spoken by angels.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

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The soul never grows old.

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