Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

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Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

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What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

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Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

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It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

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All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

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The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

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Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

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There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

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The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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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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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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

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The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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