... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.
Ki Longfellow
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Sweep through her marble halls. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
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the silence of our friends. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Pride and humiliation hand in hand
Walked with them through the world where'er they went;
... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Silently, one by one,in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-no... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a clo... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gat... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. 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There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and revie... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its de... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us foot... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in oursel... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is not grief that does not speak. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW You shall hear how Hiawatha prayed and fasted in the forest, Not for greater skill in hunting... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The world loves a spice of wickedness. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The heights by great men reached and kept Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth,... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already d... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wan... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits e... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist res... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversari... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW An angel with a trumpet said,
"Forever more, forever more,
The reign of violence is o'er!" HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW By unseen hand uplifted in the light
Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud
Floats, with its white a... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft
So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away
Over the ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Even cities have their graves! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has the name of Pontifex been given
Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder
And arch... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hail to the King of Bethlehem,
Who weareth in his diadem
The yellow crocus for the gem
O... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
T... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Shepherds at the grange,
Where the Babe was born,
Sang with many a change,
Christmas car... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW See, how the stream has overflowed
Its banks, and o'er the meadow road
Is spreading far and wi... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The music of the brook silenced all conversation. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A solid man of Boston;
A comfortable man with dividends,
And the first salmon and the first gr... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In the thickets and the meadows
Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.
On the summit of the lodges
... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It cometh into court and pleads the cause
Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;
And this ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou so... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW These bells have been anointed,
And baptized with holy water! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of you... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW He heard the convent bell,
Suddenly in the silence ringing
For the service of noonday. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and
Clashing, clanging to the pavement
Hurl them from their ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of
song, born under green hedgerows ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW O child! O new-born denizen
Of life's great city! on thy head
The glory of morn is shed,
... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It was Autumn, and incessant
Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
And, like living coals,... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Sweet April! many a thought
Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;
Nor shall they fail, till... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For thine own purpose, thou hast sent
The strife and the discouragement! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniv... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW My Book and Heart
Shall never part. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
Th... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night,
They have driven... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From t... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
The innermost recesses of my spirit! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phant... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feet that run on willing errands! HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW They sing, they will pay.
[Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.] HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the openi... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of
singers,
Swinging aloft on a willow... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Two ways the rivers
Leap down to different seas, and as they roll
Grow deep and still, and the... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I love the season well
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-fol... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
Crushing th... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee,
Waved their torches to mislead him. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Thy voice
Is a celestial melody. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep,
All things within its bosom sleep!
A single step, and all ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repe... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of
studies a dull brain. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Since yesterday I have been in Alcala.
Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,
When that d... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipin... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or i... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
. . . .
And, when the echoes had ceased, ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the
surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that b... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of
emotion,
That if by chance it be shak... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world.
Saints only have such faces. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this
particular! Some of them speak n... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already ... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant vo... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. HENRY WADWORTH LONGFELLOW Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us foo... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW None but yourself who are your greatest foe. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
Under the orchard-trees and down the pa... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and i... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW