Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Suffering
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.
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For 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. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.
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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.
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Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
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It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.
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