Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

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Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

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

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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Death is better than disease.

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

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But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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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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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

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