Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Let us be merciful as well as just.

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Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

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Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

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All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

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Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

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

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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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Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

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No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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How like they are to human things!

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Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

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Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

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Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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

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The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

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