Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

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

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See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

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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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And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

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Make not thyself the judge of any man.

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Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

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Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

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Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

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

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

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In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

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Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

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

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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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