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Old Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 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…
- The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.
- In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument…
- This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even…
- It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide…
- As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.
- The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
- Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than…
- That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like…
- For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.
- Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to…
- The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering…
- I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to…
- Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and…
- I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening…
- It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
- Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
- I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to…
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