Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.

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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

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By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

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The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

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Perseverance is a great element of success.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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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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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

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Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!

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Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

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