Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

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Evil is only good perverted.

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A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

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Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

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My Book and Heart Shall never part.

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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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All things come round to him who will but wait.

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

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Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

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Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

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