Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.

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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

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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.

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

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The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

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How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

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It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

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Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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