Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

685 quotes · Poet, Educator

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

All Love Hopeful Sad Wise Grateful 685 quotes · page 21 of 50

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Philosophical

“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”

Life Perfect Masculine And Feminine

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Sad

“There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.”

Light Night Stars

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Calm

“All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.”

Sleep Sight

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Grateful

“No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.”

Nature Sweet

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Love

“A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.”

Land History Lamps

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Hopeful

“Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.”

Dream Past And Love

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Calm

“The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.”

Rain Clouds

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Hopeful

“Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.”

Soul Higher

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Love

“Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!”

Heart Hands Fire

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Melancholic

“The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”

House Grace Sunshine

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Sad

“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.”

Inspirational Gone Hope

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Determined

“Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.”

Strong Today Ascending

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