Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes and words of wisdom

"Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary."
Found in the topic Common.

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man"s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Found in the topic Endure.

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."
Found in the topic Gravity.

"In the world"s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife."
Found in the topic Hero.

"Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait."
Found in the topic Determination.

"Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day."
Found in the topic Tomorrow.

"A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain."
Found in the topic Sorrow.

"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."
Found in the topic Arab.

"The height of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
Found in the topic Accomplishment.

"But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger."
Found in the topic Destiny.

"His brow is wet with honest sweat he earns whatever he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man."
Found in the topic Debt.

"Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows."
Found in the topic Trouble.

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
Found in the topic Wealth.

"With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground."
Found in the topic Style.

"Trust no future, howe"er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o"erhead!"
Found in the topic Future.

"Nothing is or can be accidental with God."
Found in the topic Accidents.

"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."
Found in the topic Thief.

"Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong."
Found in the topic Pain.

"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
Found in the topic God.

Interesting Quotes

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elder

All great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)