“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
Variant: The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Thing
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Table-Talk (1857)
Context: Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence".
“Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange”
Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, st. 3 (1878). <br class="br">Context: Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change<br>To something new, to something strange;<br>Nothing that is can pause or stay;<br>The moon will wax, the moon will wane,<br>The mist and cloud will turn to rain,<br>The rain to mist and cloud again,<br>To-morrow be to-day.
“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn
Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Light of Stars
The Light of Stars, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).