All Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Love
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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in
Nature
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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
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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