"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by……" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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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More Ascend Quotes
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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we…
— Edwin Markham
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An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible…
— John Climacus
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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
— Mark Twain
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We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly…
— Marianne Williamson
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon…
— Francis Bacon
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I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes…
— Annie Dillard
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God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of…
— Max Lucado
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth,…
— Tim Conway
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