There’s nothing in this world so sweet as love, and…

There’s nothing in this world so sweet as love, and next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

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Other Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange;
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,
To-morrow be to-day. - View Quote Details on Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new,…
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong. - View Quote Details on Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be…
And suddenly through the drifting brume
The blare of the horns began to ring. - View Quote Details on And suddenly through the drifting brume
The blare of the horns…
Alike were they free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.
Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows;
But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners;
There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance. - View Quote Details on Alike were they free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant,…
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. - View Quote Details on There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his…
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for. - View Quote Details on I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving…
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupation,
That is known as the Children’s Hour. - View Quote Details on Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning…
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls! - View Quote Details on I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her…
The scholar and the world! The endless strife,
The discord in the harmonies of life!
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books;
The market-place, the eager love of gain,
Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! - View Quote Details on The scholar and the world! The endless strife,
The discord in…
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. - View Quote Details on Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it…