Tag: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

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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.

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one’s judgement of others.

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To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, – act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

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