Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The soul...is audible, not visible.

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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

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The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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

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If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

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Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

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Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

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Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

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Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

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Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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