Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

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Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

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The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

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O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

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Time is the life of the soul.

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Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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My own thoughts Are my companions.

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