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“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. IV, Ch. 8 (1839).

“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 11.
The Day is Done (1845)

“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Part II, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: In the Harbor

“There are things of which I may not speak;
There are dreams that cannot die;
There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak,
And bring a pallor into the cheek,
And a mist before the eye.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Perserverence 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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing, st. 1.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

“Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 24. <br class="br"> Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
that if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilled on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“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

St. 25. <br class="br"> Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Love gives itself; it is not bought.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Variant: Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought
Source: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, sec. IV.
Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“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 A Psalm of Life

St. 9.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Longfellow's Poems

“Resolve, and thou art free.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: Flower-de-Luce, and the Masque of Pandora