Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
There’s nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All was silent as before All silent save the dripping rain.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He the sweetest of all singers.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They sing, they will pay.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wherever a noble deed is wrought, Wherever is spoken a noble thought,Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All things come round to him who will but wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
- 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.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the universal language of mankind.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead!Act, – act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That’s merrier than the nightingale.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Write in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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