926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

While the brown ale he quaffed, loud then the champion laughed.

Our pleasures and our discontents,Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints in the sands of time.

Your silent tents of green we deck with fragrant flowers; yours has the suffering been, the memory shall be ours.

Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; / Home-keeping hearts are happiest, / For those that wander they know not where / Are full of trouble and full of care; / To stay at home is best.

There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good she was very, very good, but when she was bad she was horrid.

My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait.