Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

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How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

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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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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

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How like they are to human things!

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At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

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How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain!

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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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

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As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

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