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• The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Holiday, Self

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• How beautiful is the rain!
  After the dust and the heat,
  In the broad and fiery street,
  In the narrow lane,
  How beautiful is the rain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Rain, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.85

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• In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Fall, Dark

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850). “The Boston book: being specimens of metropolitan literature”, p.362

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• Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Personality, Triumph

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
  "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold;
  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
  Than the defect; better the more than less;
  Better like Hector in the field to die,
  Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wise, Writing, Doors

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Morituri Salutamus", (pp. 142-144), 1922.

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• The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Vanity, Gains

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.280, Penguin

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• People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  People, Imagination, Curiosity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.149

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• Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Singing, Deep Emotions

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.308

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• How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Morning, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations by John Gilbert”, p.272

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• If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Writing, Character, Easy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.19

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• Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Change, Rain, Moon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

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• Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Eye, Shining, Bud

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.10

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• There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Strong, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.339, Library of America

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• As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Learning, Fire, Brain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh, and Other Pieces”, p.362

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• I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Clouds, Storm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Greatness, Men, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Men, Heaven

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• Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Heart, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.46

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• Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Made, Command

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• What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Summer, Running

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Tree, Growth, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Winter, Long, Cold

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.579, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “Poems. New edition”, p.410

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• Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lord, Should, Sabbath

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1260, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Writing, Biographies

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.57, Jazzybee Verlag

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