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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Total quotes: 5

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Birthname

AKA: Henry Longfellow

Birthday: February 27, 1807

Death: March 24, 1882

Educated At: Bowdoin College

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Professor, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 5

“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

“The birds around me hopped and played. Their thoughts I cannot measure — but the least motion which they made, it seemed a thrill of pleasure.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Complete Poems

Tagged: Nature, Birds, The Pleasure of Flying

“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

“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

“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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