Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

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

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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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

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Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

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Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

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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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Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

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O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

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If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

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