Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

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Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

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O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

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The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

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Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?

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Evil is only good perverted.

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The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

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The prayer of Ajax was for light.

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He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.

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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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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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The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.

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