| 237 Famous 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 Source: New England Tragedies--John Endicott (act IV)
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“It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream,
A blissful certainty, a vision bright,
Of that rare happiness, which even on earth
Heaven gives to those it loves.”
Visions Quotes Source: Spanish Student (act III, sc. 5)
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“Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of
heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his
sandal shoon.”
Evening Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. IV, ch. V)
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“Even cities have their graves!”
Cities Quotes Source: Amalfi (st. 6)
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“Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in
the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart
of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and
feel the throbbing heart of man?”
Students Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.”
Morality Quotes Source: Kavanagh (ch. XIII)
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“Though he was rough, he was kindly.”
Kindness Quotes Source: Courtship of Miles Standish (pt. III)
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“World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Theologian's Tale, Interlude)
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“Ah! vainest of all things
Is the gratitude of kings.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Belisarius (st. 8)
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“Be noble in every thought
And in every deed!”
Nobility Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II)
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“Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.”
Nobility Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Student's Tale, Emma and Eginhard, l. 82)
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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better
than ten years' study of books.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Hyperion (ch. VII), quoted from the Chinese
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“An angel with a trumpet said,
"Forever more, forever more,
The reign of violence is o'er!"”
Cruelty Quotes Source: The Occultation of Orion (st. 6)
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“I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (p. II, A Village Church)
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“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Drift-Wood--Table-Talk
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“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
Ambition Quotes Source: Excelsior
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“Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious
the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there
lies the poet's native land.”
Intellect Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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“See, how the stream has overflowed
Its banks, and o'er the meadow road
Is spreading far and wide!”
Brooks Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. III, sc. 7, The Nativity)
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“The music of the brook silenced all conversation.”
Brooks Quotes Source: Kavanagh (ch. XXI)
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“The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!”
Rhine river Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. I, ch. II)
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“Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it
flows amid the ruins of the Past.”
Rhine river Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. I, ch. III)
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“White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,
As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!”
Venice Quotes Source: Venice
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“Two ways the rivers
Leap down to different seas, and as they roll
Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence
Becomes a benefaction to the towns
They visit, wandering silently among them,
Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.”
Rivers Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. V)
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“You behold in me
Only a travelling Physician;
One of the few who have a mission
To cure incurable diseases,
Or those that are called so.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. I)
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“Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.”
Language Quotes Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 262)
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