Top 500 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

52. “We 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 Wadsworth Longfellow

53. “The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

54. “Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

55. “The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

56. “Art is long, and Time is fleeting.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

57. “Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

59. “Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

60. “Books are sepulchres of thought.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

61. “I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

62. “Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

63. “Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

64. “In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

65. “Into each life some rain must fall.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

67. “Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

68. “There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

69. “Nothing that is can pause or stay.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

70. “Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

71. “Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

72. “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!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

73. “The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

74. “The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

75. “All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

76. “Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

77. “To be strong is to be happy!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

78. “O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

79. “Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

80. “Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

81. “The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

82. “There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

83. “The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

84. “Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

85. “O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

86. “He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

87. “There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

88. “The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

89. “All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

90. “I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

91. “Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

92. “My own thoughts Are my companions.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

93. “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

94. “Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

95. “Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

96. “The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

97. “There 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 Wadsworth Longfellow

98. “Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

99. “Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

100. “There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow