Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

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Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

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How like they are to human things!

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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

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Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

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What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

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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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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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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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Books are sepulchres of thought.

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The human voice is the organ of the soul.

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The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

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

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