Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

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

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Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

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O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal.

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'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

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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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Learn to labour and to wait.

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

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

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O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

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But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

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Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

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A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

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Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

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I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

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The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

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