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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  • Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
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  • There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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  • There is not grief that does not speak.
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  • Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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  • Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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  • Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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  • To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
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  • Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
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  • Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
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  • We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
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  • Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
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  • Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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  • When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
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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.
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  • Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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  • Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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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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  • You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
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  • Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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  • A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
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