Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes & Quotations
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All things come round to him who will but wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; on earth it is called Forgiveness! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave us behind Footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand, One touch of fire, and all the rest is mystery! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiend-like it is to dwell therein. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road Is spreading far and wide! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning, an endeavour to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All things come round to him who will but wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; on earth it is called Forgiveness! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave us behind Footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand, One touch of fire, and all the rest is mystery! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiend-like it is to dwell therein. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road Is spreading far and wide! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning, an endeavour to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow