Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Wall Quotes, Night Quotes

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

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The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

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I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.

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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wall Quotes , Adventure Quotes

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Mother Quotes , Wall Quotes

Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wall Quotes , Honesty Quotes

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

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If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

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You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Wall Quotes , Bricks Quotes

You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

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The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Wall Quotes , Block Quotes

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

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One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

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