Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

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Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

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Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.

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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain!

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Let the dead Past bury its dead!

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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

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