Quotations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us, at noon we trample them under foot, and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 226

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With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 284

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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 326

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 516

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 534

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In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 568

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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 58