Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

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

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The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.

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Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

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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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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

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But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

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A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

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