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 32 of 50

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Grateful

“All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.”

Brother Diversity Strength

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

Love

“There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.”

Hate Sweet Sad

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Wise

“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.”

Mistake Time

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Creative

“Art is the child of Nature.”

Children Art

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Creative

“To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.”

Might Three Charm

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Adventurous

“It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.”

Sea

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Hopeful

“Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!”

Dream Sleep

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Confident

“To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”

Mind Self Intellectual

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Love

“Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.”

Sea Wife Adversity

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Melancholic

“It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.”

Names Passion Disappointment

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Love

“Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.”

Life Spring Sunshine

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Angry

“Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.”

Long House Fire

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