01c. 1844 ADLittle waves with their soft white hands efface the footprints in the sands.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
02c. 1844 ADLook 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.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
03c. 1844 ADLove is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous flowers and scenes Arcadian.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
05c. 1844 ADMen of genius are dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to the earth, is only a stone.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
06c. 1844 ADNo literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
07c. 1844 ADNor deem the irrevocable past / As wholly wasted, wholly vain, / If, rising on its wrecks, at last / To something nobler we attain.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
08c. 1844 ADNot enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way; / But to act that each to-morrow / May find us farther than to-day.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
09c. 1844 ADOne half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
10c. 1844 ADShort allowance of victual, and plenty of nothing but Gospel!Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
11c. 1844 ADSimplicity in character, in manners, in style: in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
12c. 1844 ADStanding on what too long we bore / With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, / We may discern—unseen before—/ A path to higher destinies.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
13c. 1844 ADStrange is the life of man, and fatal or fated are moments, / Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine!Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
14c. 1844 ADStronger than steel / Is the sword of the spirit; / Swifter than arrows / The life of the truth is; / Greater than anger / Is love, and subdueth.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
16c. 1844 ADThe soul reveals itself in the voice only.... It is audible, not visible.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
17c. 1844 ADThere 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.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
18c. 1844 ADThere is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
19c. 1844 ADThere's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! / A man who is not afraid to say his say, / Though a whole town's against him.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
20c. 1844 ADThose only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light—are luminous, not sparkling.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
21c. 1844 ADTime is the life of the soul. If not this, then tell me what is time?Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
22c. 1844 ADWe have not wings, we cannot soar; / But we have feet to scale and climb / By slow degrees, by more and more, / The cloudy summits of our time.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
23c. 1844 ADWe may build more splendid habitations, / Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures,/ But we cannot / Buy with gold the old associations!Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
24c. 1844 ADWe waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalise, but only intoxicate.Henry W. Longfellow / quote ↗
