Top 500 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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402. “All the means of action – the shapeless masses – the materials – lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

403. “Rule by patience, Laughing Water!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

404. “Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

405. “The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

406. “Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

407. “It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

408. “A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

409. “What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

410. “Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

411. “O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

412. “If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

413. “Life is the gift of God, and is divine.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

414. “The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

415. “Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

416. “You would attain to the divine perfection.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

417. “Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

418. “In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

419. “From labor there shall come forth rest.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

420. “The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

421. “The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

422. “The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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423. “Make not thyself the judge of any man.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

424. “Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

425. “Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

426. “People demand freedom only when they have no power.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

428. “At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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429. “Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

430. “Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

431. “We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

432. “The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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433. “Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

434. “I love thee, as the good love heaven.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

435. “Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

436. “To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one’s judgment of others.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

437. “None but yourself who are your greatest foe.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

438. “The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

439. “Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

440. “All things are symbols.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

441. “The bravest are the tenderest.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

442. “Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

443. “Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

444. “Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

445. “Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

446. “Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

447. “The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

448. “Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

449. “I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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450. “Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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