Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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

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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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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

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

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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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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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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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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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love.

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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

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

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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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