"It has done me good to be somewhat……" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life."
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438 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has 438 quotes on this site.
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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a…
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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images,…
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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
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Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
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Learn to labour and to wait.
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick…
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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through…
— Cecil B. DeMille
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in…
— Steven Saylor
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Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are…
— Mary Pipher
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What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a…
— Flower A. Newhouse
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To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is;…
— Christina Rossetti
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In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background…
— Carl Honore
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