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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day, their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet, the words repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men! ”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christmas Bells
Tagged: Christmas, Peace on Earth
“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother's face.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1814-1843
Tagged: Imperfect Humans, human imperfection, humans, Feelings, Mind, Human All Too Human
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, heart, Secret, Sorrows, Misery, cold, Sad
“Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
Tagged: Grief, Sorrow, Pain
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings(LOA #118) (Library of America)
Tagged: How To Think, enemies, self preservation, Understanding, Compassion
“Ah! vainest of all things
Is the gratitude of kings;
The plaudits of the crowd
Are but the clatter of feet
At midnight in the street,
Hollow and restless and loud.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tagged: Life
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