141 Quotations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 1. 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

- 2. ‘Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
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- 3. A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist res ...

- 4. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

- 5. A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

- 6. A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

- 7. A word that has been said may be unsaid--it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone ...

- 8. Act in the living present!

- 9. Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

- 10. Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us ...

- 11. Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

- 12. Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but imag ...

- 13. All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we ne ...

- 14. All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we ...

- 15. All things come round to him who will but wait.

- 16. All things must change to something new, to something strange.

- 17. Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satis ...

- 18. And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents ...

- 19. Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's fa ...

- 20. Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomor ...

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