Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth goodwill to men.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNoble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAnd 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.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCritics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAge is opportunity no less than youth itself.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAs I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFor age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTrust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIf you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHe that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTo be 70 years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOne half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAll things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTalk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
