Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

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The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

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Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

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Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

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A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

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Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

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Today is the blocks with which we build.

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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