Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

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Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.

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Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

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God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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Make not thyself the judge of any man.

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Music is the language spoken by angels.

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Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

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It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

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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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The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!

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

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Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

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