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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Doors, Age, Inward
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tree, Growth, Age
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Age, May
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age, Rust, Deeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age, May, Littles
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Age, Horizon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age, Crowns, Youth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age, Faces, Young
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.163, Jazzybee Verlag

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hands, Air, Age
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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