Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

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O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

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We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

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

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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

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Let us then, be up and doing.

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Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

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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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Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

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