Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 25

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• Be thy sleep
  Silent as night is, and as deep.

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  Sleep, Night, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.162

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• Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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  Time, Glasses, Church

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

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• Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
  Life is but an empty dream!

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  Life, Dream, Numbers

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

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• The nimble lie
  Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
  We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
  Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
  And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
  Till it has reached the goal.

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  Truth, Lying, Moving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
  Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
  And tremble to be happy with the rest."
  And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
  I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
  God hath already said what shall betide.

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  Answers, Guests, Tomorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.338

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• They, the holy ones and weakly,
  Who the cross of suffering bore,
  Folded their pale hands so meekly,
  Spake with us on earth no more!

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  Hands, Suffering, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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  Summer, Wine, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.305

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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• How in the turmoil of life can love stand,
  Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

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  Sympathy, Heart, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.113

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• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

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  Daughter, Dark, Moon

  'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'

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• But the great Master said, "I see
  No best in kind, but in degree;
  I gave a various gift to each,
  To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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  Teaching, Learning, Degrees

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “Poems. New, complete ed”, p.188

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• Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

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  Time, Men, Thinking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

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• Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
  Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

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  Life, Hate, Sunshine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.205, Library of America

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• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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  Life, Color, Childhood

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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  Ballads, Said

  'Children' (1849)

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• The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

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  Hot, Burning, Dry

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• Out of the shadows of night
  The world rolls into light.

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  Night, Light, World

  "In the harbor. Part II: Ultima Thule" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1882.

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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  Noble, Heroic, Type

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

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  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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  Army, Challenges, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

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  Farewell, Air, Mourning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.133

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• The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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  Gains, Rapture, Prize

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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  Literature, Mercy, Firmness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

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• All things come round to him who will but wait.

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  Patience, Waiting, All Things

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.317

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