Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Puzzles

• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the ___ of time.
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• Every man has his secret ___ which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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• ___ is the universal language of mankind.
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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ___.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

  • → The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
  • → Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
  • → The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.
  • → A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

  • → We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
  • → Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
  • → The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
  • → An idea is salvation by imagination.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

  • → It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
  • → The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
  • → To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
  • → When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Which one?

  • → We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
  • → Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
  • → Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
  • → If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

  • → Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
  • → That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
  • → A minute's success pays the failure of years.
  • → That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

  • → If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
  • → You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
  • → In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
  • → Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

  • → I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
  • → An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
  • → I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
  • → Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Which one?

  • → The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
  • → Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
  • → When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
  • → Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

  • → It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
  • → There is no education like adversity.
  • → Into each life some rain must fall.
  • → People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
  
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