Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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• Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

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  Weed, Kindness, Flower

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• Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

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  Home, Heart, My Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.991, Delphi Classics

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• Today is the blocks with which we build.

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  Block, Live In The Moment, Today

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Poetical works: A new edition, illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs drawn by John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel. (Inhalt: Veires of the night. - Earlier poems. - Translations. - Ballads and other poems. - Miscellaneous. - Poems on slavery. - The belfry of Bruges, and other poems Evangeline. - The seaside and the fireside. - By the seaside. - By fireside.)”, p.356

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• And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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  Noble, Wrecks, Immortality

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.188

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• Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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  Wisdom, Simple, Patient

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.9

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  It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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  Inspirational, Education, Spiritual

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.3

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• Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

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  Clouds, Shining, Sun

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1865). “Household Poems”, p.20

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• Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

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  Success, Waiting, Excellence

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• The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

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  Regret, Men, Average

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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  Victory, May, Defeat

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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  Silence, Soul, Solitude

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1522, Delphi Classics

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• The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

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  Memories, Heart, Mind

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• Men are four;
  He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him.
  He who knows not and knows not that he knows not. He is a fool; shun him.
  He who knows not and knows that he knows not. He is a child; teach him.
  He who knows and knows that he knows. He is a king; follow him.
  The heights by great men reached and kept
  Were not attained by sudden flight,
  But they, while their companions slept,
  Were toiling upward in the night.

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  Kings, Children, Night

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• The soul...is audible, not visible.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Visible

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• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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  Feet, Vices, Saint

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

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• Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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  Happiness, Health, Doctors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  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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• Nothing with God can be accidental.

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  Laying Down

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1679, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

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  Accidents

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• Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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