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Firsts Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
- The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and…
- 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…
- At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
- A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.
- There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
- 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…
- Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.
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