Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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.

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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

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The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

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Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

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O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

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One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

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Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

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Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

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The soul never grows old.

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O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

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