Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

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Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

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And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

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The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

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To be strong is to be happy!

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But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

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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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Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

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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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Let us be merciful as well as just.

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