Quotes By Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.”
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“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
“And in despair I bowed my head;”There is no peace on earth,” I said;”For hate is strong,And mocks the songOf peace on earth, good-will to men!”Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:”God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!The Wrong shall fail,the Right prevail,With peace on earth, good-will to men!”
“Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.”
“Let us labor for an inward stillness–An inward stillness and an inward healing.That perfect silence where the lips and heartAre still, and we no longer entertainOur own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions,But God alone speaks to us and we waitIn singleness of heart that we may knowHis will, and in the silence of our spirits,That we may do His will and do that only”
“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.”
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”