926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The nearer the dawn, the darker the night

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the airOf mountains, and their unapproachable summitsWill lift thee to the level of themselves.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.