Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

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People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

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The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

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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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Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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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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How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.

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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

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Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

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Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

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Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

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Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

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

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O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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