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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator132 QUOTES

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He became one of the best-known literary figures of 19th-century New England, and is remembered for poems such as "Paul Revere's Ride," The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He also made a notable contribution as a translator, becoming the first American to complete a translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group whose work reached a wide domestic audience in its time.

“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.”

MORALITYRELIGIONKINDNESS

“Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!”

FAITHPRAYERMOTIVATION

“Love gives itself; it is not bought.”

LOVE

“Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time;Footprints, that perhaps another,Sailing o'er life's solemn main,A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,Seeing, shall take heart again.”

TIMEPOETRYSAILING

“O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only; as God revealed himself to the prophet of old in the still, small voice; and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!”

LONELINESSGODTHE SOUL

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

REFLECTIONS

“O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,Taught me how mortals are immortalized;How grateful am I for that patient careAll my life long my language shall declare.”

PATIENCEMEMORYMORTALITYDEATHGRATITUDEEARTHLANGUAGE

“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

SIMPLICITY

“Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.”

LETTERS

“אם נקרא את ההיסטוריה הסודית של כל אויבנו, נמצא את חיי כל אדם ומצערים ומלאי סבל מספיק כדי שכל העוינות תעלם.”

REFLECTIONS

“לכל אדם יש צער סודי שהעולם לא יודע עליו; ולעיתים קרובות אנו קוראים לאדם קר, כשהוא רק עצוב.”

REFLECTIONS

“על מחצית העולם להיאנח ולהזיע כדי שמחציתו השנייה תוכל לחלום.”

REFLECTIONS

“אנו חורצים משפט על עצמנו על פי מה שאנו חושבים שיש בכוחנו לעשות; אחרים חורצים משפט עלינו על פי מה שכבר עשינו.”

REFLECTIONS

“לפעמים אנו יכולים ללמוד יותר משגיאותיו של אדם מאשר מטוהר מידותיו.”

REFLECTIONS

“גשם יורד על חייו של כל אחד מאתנו; ישנם ימים קודרים ואפלים.”

REFLECTIONS

“לכו נא לפגוש את העתיד האפל ללא מורא ובלב שלם.”

REFLECTIONS

“אל נא תתרפקו על העבר; הוא לא ישוב עוד. נסו לשפר את ההווה; הוא שלכם.”

REFLECTIONS

“המוזיקה היא שפתו האוניברסאלית של המין האנושי; השירה מהווה את הנאתו ואת שעשועיו.”

REFLECTIONS

“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

WATER

“Straight between them ran the pathway,Never grew the grass upon it”

LOVEPOETRYFRIENDSHIP