Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

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The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

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The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

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Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

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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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