Fire Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow