Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

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Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

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And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

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The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

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The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

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Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

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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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