Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

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Every human heart is human.

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This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

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Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

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I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

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He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

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

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The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

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Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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Resolve and thou art free.

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Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!

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Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

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Taste the joy That springs from labor.

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

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