Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

From labor there shall come forth rest.

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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide.

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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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Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.

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The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

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The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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The world loves a spice of wickedness.

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The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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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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In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

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