Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The present is the blocks with which we build.

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.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

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

This is the forest primeval.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.

Why dont you speak for yourself John?

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

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!

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

The best thing one can do when its raining is to let it rain.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.