Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

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Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

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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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Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

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Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

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Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

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All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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

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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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The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

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

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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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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

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Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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