Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.

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There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

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It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

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A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

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As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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Books are sepulchres of thought.

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Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.

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The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

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And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

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Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

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No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

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For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

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