Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

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Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

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Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

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Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

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There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

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Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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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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The bravest are the tenderest.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

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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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