Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

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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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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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What discord we should 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? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

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Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

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They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

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Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

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Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

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Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

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Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

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

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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

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Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

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Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

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Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

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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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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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