Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

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I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love.

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As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

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I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

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Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

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The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

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Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

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Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

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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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The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

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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!

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Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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