Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

18 quotes

Lived: 1807 – 1882
Era: 19th century
Place: Portland, Maine / Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Popular 19th-century American poet; narrative and lyric verse on endurance and home.

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Look not mournfully into the past. Wisely improve the present. Go forth to meet the future without fear.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHope
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but by toiling upward in the night.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourage
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHope
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHope
The star of the unconquered will, he rises in my breast, serene, and resolute, and still, and calm, and self-possessed.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourage
As one by one thy hopes depart, be resolute and calm.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourage
Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above; but not less in the bright flowerets under us stands the revelation of his love.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowSpiritual
Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourage
Act, act in the living Present!
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCourage
O star of strength! I see thee stand and smile upon my pain; thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, and I am strong again.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
Build to-day, then, strong and sure, with a firm and ample base; and ascending and secure shall to-morrow find its place.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
Above thy head, through rifted clouds, there shines a glorious star. Be patient. Trust thy star!
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
All your strength is in your union, all your danger is in discord; therefore be at peace henceforward, and as brothers live together.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
What seems but idle show strengthens and supports the rest.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStrength
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHope