Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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What discord should we 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?

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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

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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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Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

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I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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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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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

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The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

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Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

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