Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Music is the universal language of mankind.

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Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

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Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

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Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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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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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

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A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

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You would attain to the divine perfection.

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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

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O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

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What discord should we 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?

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