Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.

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Let us then, be up and doing.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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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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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

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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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Fair words gladden so many a heart.

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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

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For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

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Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

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Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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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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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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