| 237 Famous Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“So when a great man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men.”
Influence Quotes Source: Charles Sumner (st. 9)
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“For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of young and old.”
Bells Quotes Source: Bells of San Blas
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“Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and
Clashing, clanging to the pavement
Hurl them from their windy tower!”
Bells Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (prologue)
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“These bells have been anointed,
And baptized with holy water!”
Bells Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (prologue)
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“He heard the convent bell,
Suddenly in the silence ringing
For the service of noonday.”
Bells Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II)
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“The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer.”
Bells Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. III)
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“Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou soundest solemnly,
When, on Sabbath morning,
Fields deserted lie!”
Bells Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. III, ch. III), (quoted)
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“It cometh into court and pleads the cause
Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;
And this shall make, in every Christian clime,
The bell of Atri famous for all time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”
Bells Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Sicilian's Tale--The Bell of Atri
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“Well has the name of Pontifex been given
Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder
And architect of the invisible bridge
That leads from earth to heaven.”
Churches Quotes Source: Golden Legend (V)
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“Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!”
Sabbath Quotes Source: Christus (pt. III, John Endicott, act I, sc. 2)
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“Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee,--are all with thee!”
Love of country Quotes Source: The Building of the Ship
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“And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee,
Waved their torches to mislead him.”
Fireflies Quotes Source: Hiawatha
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“Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,
And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”
Crows Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Poet's Tale--Birds of Killingworth (st. 19)
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“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his
virtues.”
Errors Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. IV, ch. III)
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“Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.”
Parting Quotes Source: Three Friends of Mine (pt. IV)
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“My Book and Heart
Shall never part.”
Parting Quotes Source: Three Friends of Mine (pt. IV)
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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 Source: Christus (pt. III, John Endicott, act II, sc. 2)
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“None but yourself who are your greatest foe.”
Enemies Quotes Source: Michael Angelo (pt. II, 3)
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“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends.”
Enemies Quotes Source: Michael Angelo (pt. II, 3)
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“Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
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And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the
silence.”
Echo Quotes Source: Evangeline (pt. II, l. 56)
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“It was Autumn, and incessant
Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
And, like living coals, the apples
Burned among the withering leaves.”
Autumn Quotes Source: Pegasus in Pound
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“The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;--
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that our of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!”
Holidays Quotes Source: Holidays (l. 1)
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“Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Kavanagh (ch. I)
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“I love the season well
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell
The coming of storms.”
April Quotes Source: An April Day (st. 8)
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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 Source: An April Day (st. 8)
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