Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

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Nothing with God can be accidental.

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Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

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

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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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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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

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Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

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Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

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Life like an empty dream flits by.

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Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

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The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

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Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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