Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

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Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

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The soul...is audible, not visible.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

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Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

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Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

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As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

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The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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

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Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

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Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

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The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

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Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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