Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.

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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

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One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

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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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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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The young may die, but the old must!

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Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

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O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

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In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

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Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

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Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

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