Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

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How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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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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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

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The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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All things come round to him who will but wait.

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To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

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The prayer of Ajax was for light.

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All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

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Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

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What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

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No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

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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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Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

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