Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

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Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

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They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

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The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

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Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

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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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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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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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The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

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O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

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If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

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