Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

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O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

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Death is better than disease.

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As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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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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See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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

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There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

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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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Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

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Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

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Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

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A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

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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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As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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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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