Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 17

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• More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Glasses, Musical, Littles

  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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• Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peace, War, Clubs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chase Salmon Osborn, Stellanova Osborn (1944). “"Hiawatha".: with its original Indian legends, compiled, with essays on its authentic background of lake Superior country and Chippewa Indians”

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• A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Land, History, Lamps

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

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• Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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  Future, Heart, Iron Will

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Music is the language spoken by angels.

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  Angel, Language, Music Is

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• We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Names, Giving, Want

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
  To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
  As in a foundering ship.

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  Life, Self, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.352

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• A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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  Sea, Sorrow, Sun

  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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• I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

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  Men, Promise, London

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.468, Harvard University Press

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• Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Voice, Silence, Darkness

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• Thou shalt learn
  The wisdom early to discern
  True beauty in utility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  True Beauty, Utility

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems on Slavery, Early Poems, additional Poems, and Ballads”, p.12

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• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

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  Sad, Women, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

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• How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow
  Into the arctic regions of our lives,
  Where little else than life itself survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, May, Littles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• 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.

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  Twilight, Blow, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.131

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• All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

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  Sleep, Sight, Delight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.44

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• I do not love thee less for what is done,
  And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
  Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
  My love will have a sense of pity in it,
  Making it less a worship than before.

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  Life, Weakness, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

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  Heart, Hands, Forever

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.124

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• Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.

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  Heart, Sky, Day Well Spent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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• The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

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  Rain, Dark, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Rainy Day”

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• Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Errors, Sorrow, Looks

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.190

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• Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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  Summer, Sleep, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.241

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• For hate is strong,
  And mocks the song
  Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

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  Song, Strong, Hate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.334

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• For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

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  Wall, Warrior, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.471

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• And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

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  Music, Night, Poetry

  "The Day Is Done" st. 11 (1844)

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• The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
  And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

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  Fall, Sunshine, Shadow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.353, Wildside Press LLC

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