926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our faith triumphant o’er our fears.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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    There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe’er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe’er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.

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    A great sorrow, like a mariner’s quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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A great sorrow, like a mariner’s quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

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

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From the waterfall he named her, / Minnehaha, Laughing Water.

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    The evening came.—The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light across the level landscape, and like the miracle in Egypt, smote the rivers, the brooks, and the ponds, and they became as blood.

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The evening came.—The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light across the level landscape, and like the miracle in Egypt, smote the rivers, the brooks, and the ponds, and they became as blood.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge.

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