Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes - page 8

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. View quote
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. View quote
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. View quote
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. View quote
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. View quote
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. View quote
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. View quote
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. View quote
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. View quote
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. View quote
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. View quote
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. View quote
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. View quote
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. View quote
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Into each life some rain must fall. View quote
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People demand freedom only when they have no power. View quote
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. View quote
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Evil is only good perverted. View quote
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All nature, he holds, is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood. View quote
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She knew the life-long martyrdom, The weariness, the endless pain Of waiting for some one to come Who nevermore would come again. View quote
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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, - a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. View quote
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If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! View quote
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