Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

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

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Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

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Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

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Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

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For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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

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Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

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How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

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