Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.”

“The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.”

“Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.”

“Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.”

“Day of the Lord as all our days should be!”

“Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.”

“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.”

“The soul ... is audible not visible.”

“Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.”

“Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars the forget-me-nots of the angels.”

“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.”

“To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.”

“Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest.”

“Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.”

“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.”

“Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.”

“Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!”

“If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.”

“Why don't you speak for yourself John?”

“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions aspirations dreams! Book of Beginnings Story without End Each maid a heroine and each man a friend!”