70 quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

3.0 · 31 votes

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Children

4.8 · 23 votes · 158 reads

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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

Architecture

3.6 · 38 votes

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Children

4.5 · 30 votes

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All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''

Genius

4.7 · 42 votes · 144 reads

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Virtues
All things come round to him who will but wait.
3.9 · 37 votes · 36 reads
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Society
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
4.8 · 47 votes · 106 reads
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Nature
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
4.3 · 61 votes · 192 reads
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Art and Culture
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
3.2 · 61 votes · 183 reads
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Art and Culture
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
4.0 · 10 votes · 169 reads
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Nature
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
3.0 · 61 votes · 89 reads
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Time
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!
3.2 · 47 votes · 79 reads
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Virtues
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
4.4 · 9 votes · 22 reads
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Society
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
4.6 · 7 votes · 30 reads
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Time
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
4.9 · 52 votes · 115 reads
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Various
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
4.0 · 18 votes · 113 reads
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Time
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!
4.0 · 57 votes · 108 reads
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Feelings
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
4.0 · 52 votes · 194 reads
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Art and Culture
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable
3.7 · 31 votes · 113 reads
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Society
I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
3.5 · 7 votes · 20 reads
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Nature
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
4.4 · 45 votes · 94 reads
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Virtues
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
4.8 · 16 votes · 169 reads
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Virtues
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
3.8 · 52 votes · 32 reads
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Various
In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
3.4 · 48 votes · 82 reads
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Virtues
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
5.0 · 20 votes · 108 reads
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Virtues
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
4.5 · 43 votes · 31 reads
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Thought and Reason
Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
4.8 · 27 votes · 42 reads
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Feelings
It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
4.1 · 36 votes · 105 reads
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Feelings
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
4.0 · 5 votes · 162 reads
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Feelings
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
4.5 · 20 votes · 137 reads
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Thought and Reason
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
4.3 · 13 votes · 36 reads
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Nature
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
4.6 · 62 votes · 183 reads
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Virtues
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
4.0 · 8 votes · 4 reads
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Various
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
3.1 · 53 votes · 24 reads
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Nature
Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
4.8 · 50 votes · 182 reads
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Nature
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
3.4 · 54 votes · 6 reads
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Society
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
3.1 · 9 votes · 40 reads
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Feelings
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
3.0 · 21 votes · 102 reads
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Art and Culture
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings -as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
3.8 · 28 votes · 176 reads
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Virtues
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
4.7 · 53 votes · 125 reads
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Various
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
4.3 · 45 votes · 15 reads
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Defects
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
4.0 · 19 votes · 103 reads
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Various
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
3.0 · 15 votes · 131 reads
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Time
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
4.5 · 13 votes · 21 reads
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Feelings
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
3.9 · 8 votes · 113 reads
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