What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Compassion Copy Share Image
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Criticism Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Architect Copy Share Image
Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Adversity Copy Share Image
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Inspirational Copy Share Image
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Architecture Copy Share Image
Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Blossoms Copy Share Image
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Country Copy Share Image
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Disease Copy Share Image
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Copy Share Image
“Poor, deluded Shawondasee! 'T was no woman that you gazed at, 'T was no maiden that you sighed for, 'T was the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Therefore, at Pentecost, which brings The Spring, clothed like a bride, When nestling buds unfold their wings, And bishop's-caps have golden rings,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pentecost Copy Share Image
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fame Copy Share Image
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Destiny Copy Share Image
Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Copy Share Image
After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Care Copy Share Image
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hero Copy Share Image
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Astronomy Copy Share Image
There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Copy Share Image
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Copy Share Image
Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Country Copy Share Image
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Great poet Copy Share Image
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Cities Copy Share Image
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Death Copy Share Image
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dark Copy Share Image
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
