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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Inspirational Quotes (415)

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We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
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One, if by land, and two, if by sea And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.
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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
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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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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.
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A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.
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The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.
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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
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Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?
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See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
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Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.
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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
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Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Do not fear! Heaven is as near, He said, by water as by land!
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I love thee, as the good love heaven.
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Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.
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