Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

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

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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

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

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Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

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Art is the child of Nature.

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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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

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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

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O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday!

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