Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

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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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I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

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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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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

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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 morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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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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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

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A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

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Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

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Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

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