Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

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The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

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

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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

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The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

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There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

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Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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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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See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

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