Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

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Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

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The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

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My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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How like they are to human things!

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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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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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Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

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O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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Let the dead Past bury its dead!

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The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

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Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

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The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

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