Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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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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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

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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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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

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Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

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

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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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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

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For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

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Tis always morning somewhere.

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