Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

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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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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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Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

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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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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

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

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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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

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The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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Let us be merciful as well as just.

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There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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Tis always morning somewhere.

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Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

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Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

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What discord should we 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?

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