Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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Make not thyself the judge of any man.

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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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Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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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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Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

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Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

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But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

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Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

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The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

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All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

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The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

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