Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

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When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

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Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

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Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

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Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

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Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.

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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

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People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

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Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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