Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

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At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.

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Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

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As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

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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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The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

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To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

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Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

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Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

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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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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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