Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Into each life some rain must fall.

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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

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Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

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

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Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

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Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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

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O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain.

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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

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

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The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

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