Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

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Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

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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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And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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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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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

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'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

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Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

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Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

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Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

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The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

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I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

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Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

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