Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection was never wasted.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

There are no birds in last year's nest

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

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

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

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.