Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

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O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

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The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

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Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

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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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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

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The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

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A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

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Let us be merciful as well as just.

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Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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