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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• The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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  Dream, Men, Fundraising

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.746, Library of America

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

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  Success, Waiting, Excellence

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• Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Men

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• Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

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  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

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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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• 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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  If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

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  Brotherhood, May, Love One Another

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.81, Library of America

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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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• The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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  Motivational, Depression, Adversity

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

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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

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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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  Nature, Rain, Struggle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

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• Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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  Silence, Desire, Three

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics

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• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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

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• Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.

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  Men, Leaving, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.38

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• The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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  Twilight, Joy, Departed

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

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

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• Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

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  Life, Self Improvement, Noble

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• Whatever hath been written shall remain,
  Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
  The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
  Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

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  Thee, Authorship, Pondering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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