"With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for……" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground."
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438 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has 438 quotes on this site.
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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
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Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a…
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When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images,…
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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
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Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
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All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.
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Learn to labour and to wait.
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
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There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and…
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A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
— Thomas Paine
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control…
— Joan Didion
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It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned…
— Rich Mullins
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From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to…
— Henri Lefebvre
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I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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