Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 8

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• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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  Nature, Men, Law

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

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• Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Personality, Triumph

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Writing, Biographies

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.57, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Adversity

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

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• Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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  Winter, Long, Cold

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.579, Delphi Classics

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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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• Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

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  Greatness, Men, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

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  Men, Made, Command

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• So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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  Nature, Sleep, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.848, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

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• The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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  Pain, Vanity, Gains

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.280, Penguin

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• Every man has his secret sorrows.

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  Sad, Depression, Being Happy

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• Nor deem the irrevocable Past
  As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
  If, rising on its wrecks, at last
  To something nobler we attain.

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  Past, Rising, Wrecks

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.326, Library of America

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• When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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  Wine, Two, Giving

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

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• Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

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  Sunset, Fire, Sky

  "Poems" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

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• God sent his Singers upon earth
  With songs of sadness and of mirth,
  That they might touch the hearts of men,
  And bring them back to heaven again.

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  Song, Heart, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.138

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

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  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

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

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• The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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  Men, Blow, Past

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Outre Mer and Driftwood”

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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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• I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

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  Love, Time, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.164

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• How beautiful is the rain!
  After the dust and the heat,
  In the broad and fiery street,
  In the narrow lane,
  How beautiful is the rain!

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  Beautiful, Rain, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.85

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• The spirit-world around this world of sense
  Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
  Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
  A vital breath of more ethereal air.

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  Halloween, Kids, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.628

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• O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

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  Beautiful, Summer, Taken

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

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  Life, Summer, Tombstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

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  Summer, Song, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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