Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

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For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

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Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

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Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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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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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

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Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

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A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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The soul never grows old.

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There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.

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If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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

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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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