Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

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Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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

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Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

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The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

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Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

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Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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