Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

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Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!

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

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Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

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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 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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

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Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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

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Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

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

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