Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“This is the forest primeval.”

“The world loves a spice of wickedness.”

“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?”

“Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,Only a look and a voice,...”

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.”

“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solenm main, A ...”

“Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!”

“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.”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.”

“Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.”

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