Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotations
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“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“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.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Resolve and thou art free.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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