Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(572 votes)   Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(367 votes)   Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(356 votes)   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
1819-1892, American Poet

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(338 votes)   Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(327 votes)   Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(317 votes)   The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(281 votes)   Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(246 votes)   It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(232 votes)   We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(187 votes)   Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(187 votes)   The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(184 votes)   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
1819-1892, American Poet

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(169 votes)   Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(162 votes)   The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(161 votes)   Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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