Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

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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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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

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Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

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

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We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

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