Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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Learn to labour and to wait.

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Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

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There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.

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No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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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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As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide.

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

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The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

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