Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Wall, Idols

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

• Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Growth, May, Pleasure

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

• Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Tree, Growth, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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