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237 Famous Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2/27/1807 - 3/24/1984
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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

Charity Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Christmas Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches The innermost recesses of my spirit!

Voice Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Christus (pt. I, The Divine Tragedy, The First Passover, pt. VI)

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There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him.

Bravery Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Christus (pt. III, John Endicott, act II, sc. 2)

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Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water. Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

Mockingbirds Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Evangeline (pt. II, st. 2)

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To the red rising moon, and loud and deep The nightingale is singing from the steep.

Nightingales Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Keats

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'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Easter Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3)

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Feet that run on willing errands!

Feet Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Hiawatha (pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing, l. 33)

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Every human heart is human.

Humanity Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Hiawatha (introduction, l. 91)

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Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

April Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: An April Day (st. 8)

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What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

Expectation Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Masque of Pandora--In the Garden (pt. VIII)

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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy

Firmness Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

Boston Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: New England Tragedies--John Endicott (act IV)

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Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.

Daisies Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Flowers (st. 1)

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Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

Devil Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (epilogue, last stanza)

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Life Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.

Voice Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Rain Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: Midnight Mass for the Dying Year (st. 4)

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Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act,--act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Future Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Source: A Psalm of Life

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together

Emotion Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Fame Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

Grief Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together

Heart Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Judgement Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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

Kindness Quotes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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