Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Dream Quotes

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Reality Quotes , Men Quotes

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wind Quotes , Play Quotes

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Work Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sweat Quotes

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Forgiving Quotes , Mind Quotes

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Past Quotes , Scene Quotes

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Heart Quotes , Fate Quotes

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Writing Quotes , Heart Quotes

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wall Quotes , Ocean Quotes

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Men Quotes , Perfect Days Quotes

You would attain to the divine perfection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Perfection Quotes

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Change Quotes , Rain Quotes

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wall Quotes , Book Quotes

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , And Love Quotes , New Life Quotes

They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Hands Quotes , Suffering Quotes

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Farewell Quotes , Air Quotes

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Beach Quotes , Sea Quotes