Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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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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Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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Tis always morning somewhere.

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

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

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It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

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Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

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Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

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

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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

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