Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

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

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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

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