Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.