I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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KELLY JONES Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud
Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.
...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Christmas is putting footsteps in the meadow, I hear the bells, familiar carols play, snowflakes swi...
LILY CHATTERJEE The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, The secret anniversari...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
Crushing th...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day
HELEN RICE Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.
- He...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry W...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And so this is Christmas...what have you done?
JOHN LENNON It cometh into court and pleads the cause
Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;
And this ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendshi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Christmas is the spirit of love, peace and goodwill to all Humankind.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am at peace with myself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant v...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy la...
WILLIAM BLAKE I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horr...
GILLIAN JACOBS In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Religions do good when they make peace on earth.
TOBA BETA I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E.M. FORSTER Now the valley cried with anger, "Mount your horses draw your sword." And they killed the mountain p...
DENNIS LAMBERT Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells
When on the undulating air they swim!
THOMAS HOOD Traditionally, Christmas Day is the busiest day of the year at 7-Eleven. A majority of our customers...
CINDY DAVIS ...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of chu...
JOHN GEDDES Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
BIBLE He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat
to him the words of gods.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young, The heart of th...
PHILLIP BROOKS I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, ...
JOHN TESH Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...
CALVIN COOLIDGE How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Live light. Offload internal and external baggage for peace within and peace without.
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi...
GARY RUDZ On Christmas Eve, we had 22 funerals. On Christmas Day, there were 19. Everybody I know took down th...
JACK MCREYNOLDS When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands ...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life...
C. JOYBELL C. Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look...
DAVE BARRY (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l...
HERMANN HESSE Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
DEYTH BANGER Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much lov...
AMIT RAY To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this...
MARGARET THATCHER You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and chari...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Right now, many thousands of our fellow countrymen and women are serving in faraway and often hostil...
KEN PERROTTE The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
IAN WATSON Dreams are like passing clouds but love makes the world stand still for something beautiful to happe...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I hope for peace on earth and for all beings to realise their inner potential.
NIKKI ROWE Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Christmas is the happiness that lights our children's eyes.
Christmas is a song of bells ringing thr...
SHERRILL THOMPSON A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on develop...
AULIQ-ICE A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on develop...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results ...
JOSE MOURINHO Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Carry a heart, not a weapon,
Use your hand to help not to kill
DEEPSHA But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
GEORGE MACDONALD Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful f...
TOM ALTHOUSE When two sides who consider each other enemies converge in armed struggle, for the moment they are n...
THOMAS HUYNH God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and pe...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if wha...
SYLVIA PLATH Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play groun...
AMIT RAY But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not eve...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He p...
J.R. RIM What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, hear...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
WILLIE NELSON I serve my True Guru, and meditate on Him all day and night. Renouncing selfishness and conceit, I s...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does...
RAHEEL FAROOQ Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS We must first achieve peace within ourselves. Only then can we take that peace out into the world an...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I hate people who say, “Good moaning,” instead of, “Good morning.” What kind of a wanker, ar...
KARL WIGGINS I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recor...
MO ROCCA The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the ...
JOHN JAKES Maybe, peace was preferable to pleasure. Maybe, peace is one’s first love.
ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA Humans are the most intelligent creation on earth, according to all those that responded to the surv...
DAVID CHARLES BONSALL Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupi...
DEYTH BANGER Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and ...
CHARLES READE Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and ...
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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 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 Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of
heaven, and Evening stooped down to unlo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, w...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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 Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Music is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet se...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you d...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, fo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a clou...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW