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Stills Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 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…
- Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.
- I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
- Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For…
- This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
- As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,…
- The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration…
- And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.
- Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
- The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
- 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…
- Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble,…
- Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each…
- Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and…
- The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But…
- I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow…
- Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
- Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
- Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return.…
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- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden