Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

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Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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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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There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

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Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

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

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Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

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