Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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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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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

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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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The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

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As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

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Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!

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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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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

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