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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• 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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  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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• 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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  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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• Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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  House, Intelligence, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.114

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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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• They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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  Pain, Suffering, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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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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• 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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• 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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• Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

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  World, Glorious, God Within Us

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.55, 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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  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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• A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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  Fire, Burning, Enthusiasm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh, and Other Pieces”, p.364

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• Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

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  Healing, Heart, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1264, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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  Heart, Reality, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.350, Delphi Classics

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• If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

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  Women, Medusa, Stones

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

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  Literature, Language, Written

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• Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

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  Patience, Men, Waiting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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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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• In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

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  Depression, Believe, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.154

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• When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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  Shadow, Sun, Walks

  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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