Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Calm

“Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.”

Sea Tree Anchors

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Melancholic

“In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.”

Play Soul Skills

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Philosophical

“Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?”

Truth Found

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Creative

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”

Art Nature

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Love

“Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.”

Welcome Old Friends

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Spiritual

“Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.”

Art God

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Love

“I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.”

Book Lovers

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Philosophical

“What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.”

Inspirational Running Summer

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Happy

“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!”

Dream Beautiful Time

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Wise

“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”

Character Personality Triumph

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Love

“I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.”

Light Night Wall

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Wise

“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”

Mind Should Literature

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