“From labor there shall come forth rest.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "To a Child", in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845)

About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 – 1882

American poet, author of 'The Song of Hiawatha' and 'Paul Revere's Ride'.

“Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!”

“Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.”

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.”

“You cannot have the joys of work And take the comfort of a shirk.”

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“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”