Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Brought Give Itself Love Nit
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Does Grief Like No Not Speak
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Cloudy Dead Endeavor Kind Measure Morality Only Our Place Reckoning Religion Sea Siatabce Without
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Common Each Fate Into Let Life Must Fail Rain Some Then
By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Bead Crow Drop Golden Hand Kill Manage Near Passer Snake
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Element Enough Gate Great Knock Long Preserving Somebody Sucess Sure Up Wake
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

Army Author Challenge Critic Every Grand New Newspaper Sentence Station
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Anvil Either Hammer Man Must World
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Control Enemies Important Method More Strength Wish
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Beter Gove May Somebody Think
Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Error Man Sometimes Virtue We May Learn
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Back Come Improve Look Mournful Past Present Thine Wisely
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Each Other Night Pass Ship Speak
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Coat Conceit Generally Hole Leave Mind Nature Person Plaastere Self Whenever
For 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

Address Age Another For Itself Less Opportunity Through Youth
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Cease Exquisite Music Pass Seem She When
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Contact Large Leave Liberal Mind Other Scholar Would
All things come round to him who will but wait.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Thing Come Round Wait Who
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Art Every Goeth Grace Heart Unto Work
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Ambition Great More People Small Success Thing Trobled
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Affection Cu=Ity Feel Great Man Neighbourhood Safe Security Street Sweet
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Cold Every Know Man Often Only Sad Secret Sorrow Time World
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Affection never Talk Waste
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Art Counterfeit Counterpart Nature Reproduce
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Already Disappoint Foolish Pretend Recover Scar Woind
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Firmness Greatest Mercy
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Forth Fountain Return Send Which

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