Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

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The Devil hinders me. You know I say Just what I think, and nothing more nor less, And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer. I cannot say one thing and mean another. If I can't pray, I will not make believe!

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Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not. He is a fool; shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not. He is a child; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows. He is a king; follow him. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

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The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

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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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There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

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After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

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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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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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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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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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