Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Calm

“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.”

Heart Home Happiness

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Melancholic

“O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!”

Years Light White

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Motivated

“Perseverance is a great element of success.”

Sports Success

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Grateful

“Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”

Inspirational Ideas

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Love

“Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.”

Heart Strong Patience

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Creative

“Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.”

Art Badass Bad Ass

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

“No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.”

Literature Language

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Confident

“Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.”

Men Cities

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Rebellious

“That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.”

Years Success Apples

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Creative

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”

Men Dream Fundraising

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Determined

“Resolve and thou art free.”

Art Freedom

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Love

“If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!”

Winning Witty

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