Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

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Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

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There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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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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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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How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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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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The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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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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