Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

From labor there shall come forth rest.

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But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

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How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

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

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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

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Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.

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The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

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There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

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There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

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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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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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

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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

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The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

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