Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

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

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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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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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This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

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The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

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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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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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Let us then, be up and doing.

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Time is the life of the soul.

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

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A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

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Books are sepulchres of thought.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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