Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

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You would attain to the divine perfection.

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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

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Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

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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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The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

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More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

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No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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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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Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

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As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

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