Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.”

“The soul ... is audible, not visible.”

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”

“The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.”

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

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

“Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.”

“Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.”

“The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.”

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

“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!”

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall”

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

“The Rainy Day The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day...”

“Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look an...”

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.”

“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.”

“Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect though...”

“A Psalm of Life Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the gra...”