Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

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Death is better than disease.

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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My own thoughts Are my companions.

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Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

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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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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

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What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

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To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

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Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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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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An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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