Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

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More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

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To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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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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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

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Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

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Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

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O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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Every human heart is human.

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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

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An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

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

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