Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!

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

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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

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Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

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The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

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Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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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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The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

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Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

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It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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Perseverance is a great element of success.

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Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

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In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

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Taste the joy That springs from labor.

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At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

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