926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.

If you would hit the mark [at long range], you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.

So nature deals with us, and takes away our play things one by one, and by the hand leads us to rest.

Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday

Silently, one by one, / in the infinite windows of heaven, / Blossomed the lovely stars, / the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion / That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble / Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, / Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered. together.

A word that has been said may be unsaid--it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.