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Quotes from The Courtship of Miles Standish — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807–1882 United States

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Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

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Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift in atoning for error.

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Into a world unknown,—the corner-stone of a nation.

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God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.

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If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.

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He is a little chimney and heated hot in a moment.

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Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
As in a foundering ship.

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'Twas but a dream,—let it pass,—let it vanish like so many others!
What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless.

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Why don't you speak for yourself, John?

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You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the friendship between us,
Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken!

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Singing the Hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem.

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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship
Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

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It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.

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Though he was rough, he was kindly.

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For 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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If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me,
Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me?
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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But as he warmed and glowed, in his simple and eloquent language,
Quite forgetful of self, and full of the praise of his rival,
Archly the maiden smiled, and, with eyes over-running with laughter,
Said, in a tremulous voice, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.