| 237 Famous Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls.”
Night Quotes Source: Hymn to the Night
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“So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night,
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
I will go down to the chapel and pray.”
Apparitions Quotes Source: The Golden Legend (pt. IV)
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“Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
That the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.”
Courage Quotes Source: Morituri Salutamus
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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."”
Past Quotes Source: It is not always May
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“The glory of Him who
Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.”
Glory Quotes Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 177)
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“Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
The innermost recesses of my spirit!”
Voice Quotes Source: Christus (pt. I, The Divine Tragedy, The First Passover, pt. VI)
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“Thy voice
Is a celestial melody.”
Voice Quotes Source: Masque of Pandora (pt. V)
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“Her silver voice
Is the rich music of a summer bird,
Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.”
Voice Quotes Source: The Spirit of Poetry (l. 55)
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“Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.”
Reading Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. I)
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“Look not mournfully into the Past; it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the Present; it is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly
heart.”
Future Quotes Source: Hyperion
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“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o'erhead.”
Future Quotes Source: A Psalm of Life
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“The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.”
Meeting Quotes Source: Morituri Salutamus (l. 113)
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“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”
Meeting Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Theologian's Tale--Elizabeth (pt. IV)
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“Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.”
Darkness Quotes Source: Evangeline (pt. II, V, l. 108)
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“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave us behind
Footprints on the sands of time.”
Example Quotes Source: A Psalm of Life
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“At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental.”
Accident Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. VI)
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“Rule by patience, Laughing Water!”
Patience Quotes Source: Hiawatha (pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing)
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“Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.”
Patience Quotes Source: A Psalm of Life (st. 9)
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“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Patience Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Student's Tale (pt. I)
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“Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.”
Snow Quotes Source: Snow-Flakes
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“Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks,
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.”
Tomorrow Quotes Source: To-morrow
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“To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide."”
Tomorrow Quotes Source: To-Morrow
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“Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.”
Work Quotes Source: Courtship of Miles Standish (pt. VIII, l. 46)
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“For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of
emotion,
That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble,
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”
Feeling Quotes Source: Courtship of Miles Standish (pt. VI, Priscilla, l. 12)
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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.”
Feeling Quotes Source: Evangeline (pt. II, sc. 2, l. 212)
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