Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Climbing, Years

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

• Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Learning, Heart

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

• I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Time, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.164

• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Change, Sympathy

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

• If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or
  burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in
  silence, what wonder and expectation there would be
  in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Time, Spring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Complete Works”

• 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!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

• Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  God, Time, Future

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

• Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Mistake, Learning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.323

• Time has laid his hand
  Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
  But as a harper lays his open palm
  Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Heart, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

• Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Glasses, Church

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

• A handful of red sand from the hot clime
  Of Arab deserts brought,
  Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
  The minister of Thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Glasses, Spy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

• Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Time, Retirement

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.49

• Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Time, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

• The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Birthday, Time, Heart

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Men, Thinking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

• Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, May

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

• The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Moving, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

• What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Summer, Running

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

• Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Time, Sorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

• Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.97

• Time rides with the old
  At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds
  See the near landscape fly and flow behind them,
  While the remoter fields and dim horizons
  Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them,
  So in old age things near us slip away,
  And distant things go with us.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, Horizon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

• To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Twilight, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.473

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