Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet

Lived from: 1807 - 1882

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 27 february 1807 Died: 24 march 1882

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  • Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
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  • Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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  • Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
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  • Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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.
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  • Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
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  • Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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  • Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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  • Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
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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.
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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.
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  • Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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  • Music is the universal language of mankind.
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  • Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
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  • No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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  • Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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  • Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
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  • One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
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  • People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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 somebody.
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