Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1819-1892), American Poet Quotes
The present is the blocks with which we build.
The poor too often turn away, unheard, from hearts that shut against them with a snap that will be heard in heaven.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship, let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
Our faith triumphant over our fears.
Most people would succeed in
small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
Most people would succeed
in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with
a heart for any fate; still achieving,
still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
For after all, the best thing one can
do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere -- "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.