Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

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Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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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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Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

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Let us be merciful as well as just.

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Time is the life of the soul.

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Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine, The foliage of the valleys and the heights. Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights; The mower's scythe makes music to my ear; I am the mother of all dear delights; I am the fairest daughter of the year.

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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

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O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

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The natural alone is permanent.

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

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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