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 29 of 50

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Wise

“It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.”

Book Order Lovers

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Courageous

“This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!”

Writing War Virginia

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Creative

“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.”

Mind Purity

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Wise

“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”

Evil Failure

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Grateful

“The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!”

Book Faces Tongue

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Wise

“I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.”

Men Believe Mind

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Creative

“Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.”

Artist Dies

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Grateful

“The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.”

Ideas Names

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Sad

“The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.”

Wind Blow Twilight

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Hopeful

“Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!”

Love Time Retirement

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Creative

“Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.”

Men Animal Fashion

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Determined

“Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.”

Stars Powerful Passion

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