Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

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A boy's will is the wind's will.

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For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

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I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth My love will have a sense of pity in it, Making it less a worship than before.

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Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

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Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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Time is the life of the soul.

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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

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A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

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Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

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Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

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

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Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

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There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

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Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

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