Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

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Make not thyself the judge of any man.

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Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.

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But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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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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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

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Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

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A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

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Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

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

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Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

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