Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882, American writer. The best-known 19th-century poet in the United States, he wrote The Song of Hiawatha (1855) and a translation (1865-1867) of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings- as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all war-like weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. There was peace among the nations.
Big words do not smite like war clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mighter than boastings.
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