Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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• The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their…
• When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory…
• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by…
• The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
• Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
• All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
• Learn to labour and to wait.
• Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
• Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
• There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
• Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
• Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
• This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids…
• Music is the language spoken by angels.
• Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.
• Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.
• Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken,…
• If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

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