Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

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I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

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Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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The human voice is the organ of the soul.

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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

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The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

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And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

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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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