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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) If you once understand an author’s character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) 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  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes) The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes)
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