"Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad."
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes (page 33 of 35)
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"More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish."
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".... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high .....'' Long live Scanderbeg."
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"A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person."
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"Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need."
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"What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?"
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"There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful."
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"The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls."
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"One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream."
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"To be strong is to be happy!"
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"There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it."
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"Make not thyself the judge of any man."
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""Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!""
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"The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!"
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"A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society."
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"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."
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"If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!"
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"O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?"
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"But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again."
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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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