Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

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What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

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By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

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The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

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I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

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The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

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By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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