Quotes
Quotes - Longfellow
He speaketh not; and yet there lies
A conversation in his eyes.
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.
Thine was the prophet's vision, thine
The exaltation, the divine
Insanity of noble minds,
That never falters nor abates,
But labors and endures and waits,
Till all that it foresees it finds
Or what it can not find creates.
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time.
God sent his singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth.
The long mysterious exodus of death.
Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems
And all the rest are dead.
I know a maiden fair to see,
Take care!
She can both false and friendly be,
Beware! Beware!
Trust her not,
She is fooling thee.
She knew the life-long martyrdom,
The weariness, the endless pain
Of waiting for some one to come
Who nevermore would come again.
Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.
Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.
For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
