Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Fair words gladden so many a heart.

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Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

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Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

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The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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

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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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Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.

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Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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

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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

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Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

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