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Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To be strong is to be happy!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every human heart is human.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o'er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The prayer of Ajax was for light.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow