Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

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"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

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Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

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Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

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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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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

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A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

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To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

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To be strong is to be happy!

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Evil is only good perverted.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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Let us then, be up and doing.

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Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

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