Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

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As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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

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The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

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O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

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In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

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If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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My Book and Heart Shall never part.

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Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

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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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More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

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