Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

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Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

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Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

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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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Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

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A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

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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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There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

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Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

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Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

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Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

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O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

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Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

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