Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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Fair words gladden so many a heart.

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

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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

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You would attain to the divine perfection.

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There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

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The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

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At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.

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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

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We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

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I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

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