All Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in
Nature
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in
Love
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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