More - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Adversity

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Death

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Dreams

It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Heart

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

 Progress

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Fate

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