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Great Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is…
- 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…
- Perseverance is a great element of success.
- A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
- When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
- Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For…
- This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even…
- Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without…
- Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.
- I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
- Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its…
- Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.
- Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
- The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
- There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the…
- And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
- Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.
- 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…
- Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
- 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…
- My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
- Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--…
- Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
- The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
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