Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

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O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

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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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We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

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One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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To be strong is to be happy!

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Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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The natural alone is permanent.

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

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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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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

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They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

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