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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes


The human voice is the organ of the soul.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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.

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.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.