Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trust no Future howeer pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act-act in the living present!

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

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

No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own.

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

Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Every human heart is human.

Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream!

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate.

And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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.