Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

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The young may die, but the old must!

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

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Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?

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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

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What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

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No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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

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All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

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Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

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If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

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Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

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As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

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