Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

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No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

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Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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The bravest are the tenderest.

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

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And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

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