Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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

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I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

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

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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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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

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The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.

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What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

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But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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You would attain to the divine perfection.

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Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

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The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

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