Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

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The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

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The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

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The natural alone is permanent.

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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

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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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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

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To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

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