Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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